Cyphocharax Explained

Cyphocharax is a genus of fish in the family Curimatidae native to South America.

Species

There are currently 41 recognized species in this genus:

• Cyphocharax abramoides (Kner, 1858)
• Cyphocharax aninha Wosiacki & D. P. S. Miranda, 2014 ^[1]
• Cyphocharax aspilos Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax biocellatus Vari, Sidlauskas & Le Bail, 2012 ^[2]
• Cyphocharax derhami Vari & F. Chang, 2006
• Cyphocharax festivus Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax gangamon Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax gilbert (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
• Cyphocharax gillii (C. H. Eigenmann & C. H. Kennedy, 1903)
• Cyphocharax gouldingi Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax helleri (Steindachner, 1910)
• Cyphocharax jagunco Dutra, Penido, G. C. G. Mello & Pessali, 2016 ^[3]
• Cyphocharax laticlavius Vari & Blackledge, 1996
• Cyphocharax leucostictus (C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889)
• Cyphocharax lundi Dutra, Penido, G. C. G. Mello & Pessali, 2016 ^[3]
• Cyphocharax magdalenae (Steindachner, 1878)
• Cyphocharax meniscaprorus Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax mestomyllon Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax microcephalus (C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889)
• Cyphocharax modestus (Fernández-Yépez, 1948)
• Cyphocharax multilineatus (G. S. Myers, 1927)
• Cyphocharax nagelii (Steindachner, 1881)
• Cyphocharax nigripinnis Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax notatus (Steindachner, 1908)
• Cyphocharax oenas Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax pantostictos Vari & Barriga-S., 1990
• Cyphocharax pinnilepis Vari, Zanata & Camelier, 2010
• Cyphocharax platanus (Günther, 1880)
• Cyphocharax plumbeus (C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889)
• Cyphocharax punctatus (Vari & Nijssen, 1986)
• Cyphocharax saladensis (Meinken, 1933)
• Cyphocharax sanctigabrielis B. F. Melo & Vari, 2014 ^[4]
• Cyphocharax santacatarinae (Fernández-Yépez, 1948)
• Cyphocharax signatus Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax spilotus (Vari, 1987)^[5]
• Cyphocharax spiluropsis (C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889)
• Cyphocharax spilurus (Günther, 1864)
• Cyphocharax stilbolepis Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax vanderi (Britski, 1980)
• Cyphocharax vexillapinnus Vari, 1992
• Cyphocharax voga (R. F. Hensel, 1870)

Notes and References

1. Wosiacki, W.B. & Miranda, D.P.d.S. (2014): Description of a New Small Species of the Genus Cyphocharax (Characiformes: Curimatidae) from the Lower Amazon Basin. Copeia, 2013 (4): 627-633.
2. Vari, R.P., Sidlauskas, B.L. & Le Bail, P.-Y. (2012): New species of Cyphocharax (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Curimatidae) from Suriname and French Guiana and a discussion of curimatid diversity on the Guiana Shield Cybium, 36 (1): 63-69.
3. Dutra, G.M., Penido, I.d.S., Mello, G.C.G.d. & Pessali, T.C. (2016): Two new species of Cyphocharax (Teleostei: Characiformes: Curimatidae) from headwaters of the Jequitinhonha and São Francisco river basins, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Zootaxa, 4103 (2): 154-164.
4. Melo, B.F. & Vari, R.P. (2014): New species of Cyphocharax (Characiformes: Curimatidae) from the upper rio Negro, Amazon basin. Neotropical Ichthyology, 12 (2): 327-332.
5. Web site: Two new species of Curimatid fishes (Ostariophysi: Characiformes) from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil by Richard P. Vari Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 100:603-609 (1987)i.