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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderCharaciformes
  4. ›familyCharacidae
  5. ›genusAstyanax
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Astyanax tumbayaensis

Astyanax tumbayaensis Miquelarena & Menni, 2005

First described in: Miquelarena, Amalia M. & R. C. Menni. 2005. Astyanax tumbayaensis, a new species from northwestern Argentina highlands (Characiformes: Characidae) with a key to the Argentinean species of the genus and comments on their distribution. Revue suisse de zoologie 112(3): 661-676.

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Astyanax tumbayaensis Miquelarena & Menni 2005

A. tumbayaensis Miquelarena & Menni, 2005 New species > details

List of Freshwater Fishes from Argentina - Update 9.

materials_examined

ILPLA 1702, male, 68.8 mm SL; man-made channel near the road crossing Tumbaya village (23 ° 51 ’ S 65 ° 28 ’ W), Grande River basin, Jujuy Province, Argentina, coll. R. Menni & A. Miquelarena, April 1987; ILPLA 1513, 7 females (1 c & s), 41.0 - 65.4 mm SL, same date as previous specimen.

A new species of Astyanax (Teleostei, Characiformes, Characidae), with breeding tubercles, from the Paraná and Uruguay river basins.

materials_examined

CI-FML 3845, 15 ex., 57.1 - 75.8 mm, Argentina, Jujuy, Arroyo de los Sauces, Quebrada de Humahuaca, Cuenca Rio Grande.

Astyanax endy (Characiformes: Characidae), a new fish species from the upper Río Bermejo basin, northwestern Argentina.

materials_examined

CI-FML 3845, 15 ex., 57.1 - 75.8 mm, Argentina, Jujuy, Arroyo de los Sauces, Quebrada de Humahuaca, Rio Grande basin.

A new species of Astyanax (Characiformes: Characidae) from the endorheic Río Salí basin, Tucumán, northwestern Argentina.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5204325.