Knodus
| Knodus | |
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| Knodus borki | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Stevardiidae |
| Subfamily: | Diapominae |
| Genus: | Knodus C. H. Eigenmann, 1911[1] |
| Type species | |
| Knodus meridae C. H. Eigenmann, 1911[1] | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Knodus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes, characins, belonging to the family Stevardiidae. The fishes in this genus are found in South America.[2]
Species
[edit]Knodus contains the following valid species:[3]
- Knodus alpha (C. H. Eigenmann, 1914)
- Knodus angustus Menezes, K. M. Ferreira & Netto-Ferreira, 2020
- Knodus borari Silva-Oliveira, Canto & Ribeiro, 2023
- Knodus borki Zarske, 2008
- Knodus breviceps (C. H. Eigenmann, 1908)
- Knodus chapadae (Fowler, 1906)
- Knodus cinarucoensis (Román-Valencia, Taphorn & Ruiz-C., 2008)
- Knodus cismontanus (C. H. Eigenmann, 1914)
- Knodus cupariensis de Sousa, Silva-Oliveira, Canto & Ribeiro, 2020
- Knodus delta Géry, 1972
- Knodus deuterodonoides (C. H. Eigenmann, 1914)
- Knodus diaphanus (Cope, 1878)
- Knodus dorsomaculatus K. M. Ferreira & Netto-Ferreira, 2010
- Knodus figueiredoi Esguícero & R. M. C. Castro, 2014[4]
- Knodus gamma Géry, 1972
- Knodus geryi F. C. T. Lima, Britski & Machado, 2004
- Knodus heteresthes (C. H. Eigenmann, 1908)
- Knodus hypopterus (Fowler, 1943)
- Knodus longus Zarske & Géry, 2006
- Knodus macarenae (Román-Valencia, García-Alzate, Ruiz-C. & Taphorn, 2010)
- Knodus megalops G. S. Myers, 1929
- Knodus meridae C. H. Eigenmann, 1911
- Knodus mizquae (Fowler, 1943)
- Knodus moenkhausii (C. H. Eigenmann & C. H. Kennedy, 1903)
- Knodus nuptialis Menezes & Marinho, 2019[5]
- Knodus obolus Deprá, Ota, Vitorino Júnior & K. M. Ferreira 2021
- Knodus orteguasae (Fowler, 1943)
- Knodus pasco Zarske, 2007
- Knodus savannensis Géry, 1961
- Knodus septentrionalis Géry, 1972
- Knodus shinahota K. M. Ferreira & Carvajal-Vallejos, 2007
- Knodus smithi (Fowler, 1913)
- Knodus tanaothoros (Weitzman, Menezes, Evers & Burns, 2005)
- Knodus tiquiensis K. M. Ferreira & F. C. T. Lima, 2006
- Knodus victoriae (Steindachner, 1907)
- Knodus weitzmani (Menezes, Netto-Ferreira & K. M. Ferreira, 2009)
- Knodus ytuanama K. M. Ferreira and W. M. Ohara, 2022[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Diapominae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Knodus". FishBase. June 2024 version.
- ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Knodus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
- ↑ Esguícero, A.L.H.; Castro, R.M.C. (2014). "Knodus figueiredoi, a new characid from the Rio das Garças, upper Rio Araguaia basin, Brazil, with comments on the taxonomic limits of the genera Knodus and Bryconamericus (Teleostei: Characidae)". Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters. 25 (1): 39–48.
- ↑ Menezes, N.A.; M.M.F. Marinho (2019). "A New Species of Knodus Eigenmann (Characiformes: Characidae: Stevardiinae) with Comments on Nuptial Tubercles and Gill Gland in Characiform Fishes". PLOS ONE. 14 (7) e0217915. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1417915M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0217915. PMC 6619666. PMID 31291277.
- ↑ Katiane M. Ferreira; Willian Massaharu Ohara (2022). "A New Rheophilic Species of Knodus Eigenmann (Characiformes: Characidae: Stevardiinae) from the upper rio Juruena, rio Tapajós basin, Chapada dos Parecis, Mato Grosso, Brazil". Zootaxa. 5227 (3): 365–377. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5227.3.5. PMID 37044684.
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