Boulengerella Explained

Boulengerella is a genus of pike-characins from tropical South America, found in the Amazon Basin, Orinoco, and rivers of the Guiana Shield. Boulengerella was named after the Belgian ichthyologist George Albert Boulenger.^[1] The currently described species are:

• Boulengerella cuvieri (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) (bicuda)
• Boulengerella lateristriga (Boulenger, 1895) (striped pike-characin)
• Boulengerella lucius (G. Cuvier, 1816) (golden pike-characin)
• Boulengerella maculata (Valenciennes, 1850) (spotted pike-characin)
• Boulengerella xyrekes Vari, 1995

Notes and References

1. Book: Taphorn . Donald Charles . Characiform fishes of the Apure River drainage, Venezuela . 1990 . 673 .