Axelrodia
Appearance
Axelrodia | |
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Firefly Tetra (Axelrodia species) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Characiformes |
Family: | Characidae |
Subfamily: | Aphyoditeinae |
Genus: | Axelrodia Géry, 1965 |
Axelrodia is a genus of small characin from the Amazon Basin and Meta River in South America, with three currently described species:
- Axelrodia riesei Géry, 1966 (ruby tetra)
- Axelrodia stigmatias (Fowler, 1913)
The genus was named for Herbert R. Axelrod, publisher of Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine.[1]
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Axelrodia". FishBase. October 2011 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Family CHARACIDAE: Subfamily STEVARDIINAE + Incertae sedis". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 March 2021.