Alestes Muller, Troschel 1844
Creators: name: Toledo-Piza, Mônica
name: Baena, Eduardo G.
name: Dagosta, Fernando C. P.
name: Menezes, Naércio A.
name: Ândrade, Marcelo
name: Benini, Ricardo C.
name: Bertaco, Vinicius A.
name: Birindelli, José Luís O.
name: Boden, Gert
name: Buckup, Paulo A.
name: Camelier, Priscila
name: Carvalho, Fernando R.
name: Castro, Ricardo M. C.
name: Chuctaya, Junior
name: Decru, Eva
name: Derijst, Eddy
name: Dillman, Casey B.
name: Ferreira, Katiane M.
name: Merxem, Dimitri G.
name: Giovannetti, Victor
name: Hirschmann, Alice
name: Jégu, Michel
name: Jerep, Fernando C.
name: Langeani, Francisco
name: Lima, Flávio C. T.
name: Lucena, Carlos A. S.
name: Lucena, Zilda Margarete S.
name: Malabarba, Luiz R.
name: Malabarba, Maria Cláudia S. L.
name: Marinho, Manoela M. F.
name: Mathubara, Kleber
name: Mattox, George M. T.
name: Melo, Bruno F.
name: Moelants, Tuur
name: Moreira, Cristiano R.
name: Musschoot, Tobias
name: Netto-Ferreira, André L.
name: Ota, Rafaela P.
name: T. Oyakawa, Osvaldo
name: Pavanelli, Carla S.
name: Reis, Roberto E.
name: Santos, Osmar
name: Serra, Jane Piton
name: Silva, Gabriel S. C.
name: Silva-Oliveira, Cárlison
name: Souza-Lima, Rosana
name: Vari, Richard P.
name: Zanata, Angela M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Characiformes
Alestidae
Alestes

description: ALESTES Müller, Troschel, 1844
G Boden, D Geelhand de Merxem
Myletes Cuvier, 1814:75.
Type species: Salmo dentex Hasselquist, 1762 (= Cyprinus dentex Linnaeus, 1758).
Type by subsequent designation by Cuvier’s disciples in 1839, see Géry (1972a). Gender: Masculine. Additional comments: Name was suppressed in ICZN Opinion 1813, 1995 and placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic names in Zoology.
Alestes Müller, Troschel, 1844:88. Type species: Salmo niloticus Linnaeus, 1758. Type by subsequent designation by Jordan (1919a). Gender: Masculine.
Alestiops Fowler, 1975:73. Type species: Alestes macrophthalmus tanganicae Hoedeman, 1951. Type by original designation. Gender: Masculine. Additional comments: Originally proposed as a subgenus of Alestes by Hoedeman (1951); it included 5 species, but no type was established (Art. 13.3).
description: Published as part of Toledo-Piza, Mônica, Baena, Eduardo G., Dagosta, Fernando C. P., Menezes, Naércio A., Ândrade, Marcelo, Benini, Ricardo C., Bertaco, Vinicius A., Birindelli, José Luís O., Boden, Gert, Buckup, Paulo A., Camelier, Priscila, Carvalho, Fernando R., Castro, Ricardo M. C., Chuctaya, Junior, Decru, Eva, Derijst, Eddy, Dillman, Casey B., Ferreira, Katiane M., Merxem, Dimitri G., Giovannetti, Victor, Hirschmann, Alice, Jégu, Michel, Jerep, Fernando C., Langeani, Francisco, Lima, Flávio C. T., Lucena, Carlos A. S., Lucena, Zilda Margarete S., Malabarba, Luiz R., Malabarba, Maria Cláudia S. L., Marinho, Manoela M. F., Mathubara, Kleber, Mattox, George M. T., Melo, Bruno F., Moelants, Tuur, Moreira, Cristiano R., Musschoot, Tobias, Netto-Ferreira, André L., Ota, Rafaela P., T. Oyakawa, Osvaldo, Pavanelli, Carla S., Reis, Roberto E., Santos, Osmar, Serra, Jane Piton, Silva, Gabriel S. C., Silva-Oliveira, Cárlison, Souza-Lima, Rosana, Vari, Richard P. & Zanata, Angela M., 2024, Checklist of the species of the Order Characiformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi), pp. 1-548 in Neotropical Ichthyology (e 230086) (e 230086) 22 (1) on page 17, DOI: 10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0086, http://zenodo.org/record/13326553