Phalloptychus Eigenmann
Creators: name: Lucinda, Paulo Henrique Franco
name: Reis, Roberto E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2005
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Cyprinodontiformes
Poeciliidae
Phalloptychus

description: <i>Phalloptychus</i> Eigenmann <i>Phalloptychus</i> Eigenmann, 1907: 426, 430. Type species: <i>Girardinus januarius</i> Hensel, 1868. Type by original designation. Gender: masculine. <b>Composition.</b> <i>Phalloptychus eigenmanni</i> Henn, <i>P</i>. <i>januarius</i> (Hensel), <i>P</i>. <i>iheringii</i> (Boulenger). <b>Distribution.</b> Brazil: rio Catu in Alagoinhas (Bahia) and coastal drainages from Rio de Janeiro to Rio Grande do Sul. <b>Tribe Poeciliini + Tribe Cnesterodontini</b> [Clade 115] <b>Diagnosis.</b> Poeciliins and Cnesterodontins can be diagnosed by the following not uniquely derived and/or reversed features: (1) parietals absent [2-2]; (2) anterior tip of basipterygium in adult males approximately triangular and round [37-0]; (3) ligastyle with one axis [46-1]; (4) pleural ribs associated with haemal arches in males [60- 1]; (5) pleural ribs associated with haemal arches in females [61-1]; (6) absence of an anterior convex expansion of second gonactinosts [70-0]; (7) absence of an anterior process on base of fifth middle anal-fin radial in adult males [78-0]; (8) males with 10 anal-fin rays [85-0]; and (9) absence of an elongate and dorsal protuberance along R4p (just behind retrorse spines series) of anal fin in adult males [118-0]. <b>Tribe Poeciliini Bonaparte, new usage</b> [Clade 112] Poecilini Bonaparte, 1831: 94, unavailable name; preoccupied in Coleoptera. Poeciliini Bonaparte, 1831. Type-genus <i>Poecilia</i> Bloch &amp; Schneider, 1801. <b>Diagnosis.</b> Poeciliins can be diagnosed by the following not uniquely derived and/or reversed features: (1) notch on dentary [16-1]; (2) ascending process of parasphenoids in adults long, contacting pterosphenoids [20-0]; (3) second gonapophysis forming an angle of 45-70 degrees relative to vertebral column [54-1]; (4) third gonapophysis forming an angle of 35-70 degrees relative to vertebral column [55-1]; (5) first proximal radial of dorsal fin in adult males located between neural spines of 11 th and 12 th vertebrae [62-6]; (6) adult females with first proximal radial of dorsal fin located between neural arches of 8 th and 9 th vertebrae [63-7*]; (7) 10 or more dorsal-fin rays (males and females) [64-0]; and (8) dark stripe present on median portion of dorsal fin [137-1]. <b>Composition.</b> Genera <i>Poecilia</i>, <i>“ Poecilia ” reticulata</i>, <i>Xiphophorus</i>, <i>Limia</i>, <i>Pamphorichthys</i>, <i>Micropoecilia</i>, <i>Quintana</i>, <i>Carlhubbsia</i>, and <i>Xenodexia</i>. <b>Distribution.</b> North, Central and South America.
description: Published as part of <i>Lucinda, Paulo Henrique Franco &amp; Reis, Roberto E., 2005, Systematics of the subfamily Poeciliinae Bonaparte (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), with an emphasis on the tribe Cnesterodontini Hubbs, pp. 1-60 in Neotropical Ichthyology 3 (1)</i> on pages 43-44, DOI: 10.1590/S1679-62252005000100001, http://zenodo.org/record/5417369
description: {"references": ["Eigenmann, C. H. 1907. The poeciliid fishes of Rio Grande do Sul and the La Plata Basin. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 32 (1532): 425 - 433.", "Bonaparte, C. L. 1831. Saggio di una distribuzione metodica degli animali vertebrati. 78 pp. Giornale Arcadico di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, 52: 155 - 189."]}