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family

glass knifefishes
Sternopygidae Cope, 1871

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Actinopterygii - ray-finned fishes »  order Gymnotiformes - knifefishes

Included taxa

Number of records: 7

genus Archolaemus Korringa, 1970
genus Distocyclus Mago-Leccia, 1978
genus Eigenmannia Jordan & Evermann, 1896
genus Japigny Meunier, Jégu & Keith, 2011
genus Rhabdolichops Eigenmann & Allen, 1942
genus Rhinosternarchus Dutra et al., 2021
genus Sternopygus Müller & Troschel, 1848

Links and literature

CZ AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [family/439]

Plíštil J. (Ed.) (2001-2025): AQUATAB. World Wide Web electronic publication [http://aquatab.net] [as Sternopygidae]
Data retrieved on: 17 January 2010
CZ Hanel L., Novák J. (2004): České názvy živočichů V. Ryby a rybovití obratlovci (Pisces), 4. Paprskoploutví (Actinopterygii), kostnatí (Neopterygii) – trnobřiší (Characiformes), nahohřbetí (Gymnotiformes), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 171 pp. [as Sternopygidae]
Data retrieved on: 18 June 2013
EN Sheiko B.A. (2013): On family-group names of extant fishes and fish-like vertebrates of the world, Explorations of the fauna of the seas. St. Petersburg: Zoological Institute RAS. Vol. 74 (82). P. 1–204. [as Sternopygidae Cope, 1871]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2019

Data source info

Froese R., Pauly D. (eds.): FishBase
[Data retrieved on: 10 June 2007]

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