Poptella
| Poptella | |
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| Poptella sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Acestrorhamphidae |
| Subfamily: | Stethaprioninae |
| Genus: | Poptella C. H. Eigenmann, 1908[1] |
| Type species | |
| Tetragonopterus longipinnis | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Poptella is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins.[1] The fishes in this genus are found in tropical South America.[2] The name of this genus honours the Dutch ichthyologist Canna Maria Louise Popta who was a Curator of Reptiles, Amphibians and Fishes at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden and who described the type species of this genus as Tetragonopterus longipinnis in 1901, donating one of the types to Carl H. Eigenmann’s collection at Indiana University.[3]
Species
[edit]Poptella contains the following valid species:[4]
- Poptella abathes Garcia-Ayala, Oliveira & Benine, 2025
- Poptella actenolepis Garcia-Ayala & Benine, 2019
- Poptella brevispina Reis, 1989
- Poptella compressa (Günther, 1864)
- Poptella fortispina Garcia-Ayala & Benine, 2023
- Poptella fuscata Garcia-Ayala & Benine, 2020
- Poptella longipinnis (Popta, 1901)
- Poptella magnuspina Garcia-Ayala, Oliveira & Benine, 2025
- Poptella paraguayensis (C. H. Eigenmann, 1907)
- Poptella spinula Garcia-Ayala, Oliveira & Benine, 2025
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Stethaprioninae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Poptella". FishBase. April 2025 version.
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf (3 October 2025). "Family ACESTRORHAMPHIDAE Eigenmann 1907 (American Tetras)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
- ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Poptella". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 23 October 2025.
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