Pseudorestias Explained

Pseudorestias is a monospecific genus in the family Cyprinodontidae, the pupfishes. The only species in the genus is Pseudorestias lirimensis which was described in 2017. from a type locality given as "Charvinto Creek near to the thermal pond Baños San Andrés about 6 km E of Lirima village, Chancacolla River, Tarapacá Region, northern Chile". It was also found in the Chancacolla River.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Gloria Arratia . Irma Vila . Natalia Lam . Claudia Jimena Guerrero . Claudio Quezada-Romegialli . amp . 2017 . Morphological and taxonomic descriptions of a new genus and species of killifishes (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) from the high Andes of northern Chile . PLOS ONE. 12 . 8 . e0181989 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0181989 . 28792510 . 5549709 . 2017PLoSO..1281989A . free .

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