Kryptolebias marmoratus

Familia: Rivulidae
Genus: Kryptolebias
Species: Kryptolebias marmoratus

Name

Kryptolebias marmoratus (Poey, 1880)

Neotype: USNM 37429. Lectotype designated by Rivas 1945:45, but syntype status disputed in Smith & Lazara, 1990:191. Rivas lectotype established as neotype in Opinion 1798.

Type locality: Cuba, if not from the USA.

References

• Avise, J. C. & Tatarenkov, A., 2015: Population genetics and evolution of the mangrove rivulus Kryptolebias marmoratus, the world's only self-fertilizing hermaphroditic vertebrate. Journal of Fish Biology, DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12741

• Costa, W.J.E.M. 2006. Redescription of Kryptolebias ocellatus (Hensel) and K. caudomarginatus (Seegers) (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), two killifishes from mangroves of south-eastern Brazil. Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology 11(1): 5–12. Reference page. 

• International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, 1995: Opinion 1798 (Case 2722): Rivulus marmoratus Poey, 1880 (Osteichthyes, Cyprinodontiformes): given precedence over R. ocellatus Hensel, 1868, and a neotype designated for R. marmoratus. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 52: 106-108.

• Poey, F., 1880: Revisio piscium Cubensium. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Madrid, 9: 243-261, Pls. 6-10.

• Rivas, L. R., 1945: The discovery and redescription of the types of Rivulus marmoratus Poey, a cyprinodont from Cuba. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 35 (3): 95-97. BHL

• Lazara, K. J. & Smith, M. L., 1990: Rivulus marmoratus Poey 1880 (Osteichthys, Cyprinodontiformes): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 47 (3): 191-194.

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