Pyrrhulina eleanorae
Appearance
Pyrrhulina eleanorae | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Characiformes |
Family: | Lebiasinidae |
Genus: | Pyrrhulina |
Species: | P. eleanorae
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Binomial name | |
Pyrrhulina eleanorae Fowler, 1940
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Pyrrhulina eleanorae is a species of fish in the Pyrrhulina genus found in the upper Amazon basin. They grow no more than a few centimeters.[1]
Fish named in honor of Eleanor Morrow, the wife of William P. Morrow, who was the leader of the Peruvian expedition that collected the type specimen.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pyrrhulina eleanorae". Fishbase. April 2019 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families CURIMATIDAE, PROCHILODONTIDAE, LEBIASINIDAE, CTENOLUCIIDAE and ACESTRORHYNCHIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
External links
[edit]Data related to Pyrrhulina eleanorae at Wikispecies