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Serrasalmidae

Serrasalmus fernandezi 

Current status: Synonym of Serrasalmus irritans Peters 1877

fernandezi, Serrasalmus Fernández-Yépez [A.] 1965:[1], Fig. [Evencias No. 16; El Polvero, Río San José, Estado Guárico, Venezuela. Holotype: MACLPI 65637. Paratypes: AFY 51249 (2), 55051 (now 0), 65631 (5); MACLPI 65626 (33), 65638 (13); MBUCV-V-15846 [ex AFY 55051] (1). Type catalog: Provenzano et al. 1998:17. On first unnumbered page. •Synonym of Serrasalmus irritans Peters 1877 -- (Machado-Allison 2002:80, Jégu in Reis et al. 2003:191, Machado-Allison et al. 2009:128).

REFERENCES

• Fernández-Yépez, A.   1965 (June) Un nuevo pez del género Serrasalmus colectado en Venezuela. Evencias No. 16: 4 unnumbered.

• Provenzano, F. , A. Marcano, and P. Mondaca  1998 (Mar.) Catálogo de ejemplares tipos en la colección de peces del Museo de Biología de la Universidad Central de Venezuela. (MBUCV-V). Acta Biologica Venezuelica v. 18 (no. 1): 1-24.

• Machado-Allison, A.   2002 Los peces caribes de Venezuela: una aproximación a su estudio taxonómico. Biblioteca de la Academia de Cieancias Fisicas, Mathematics y Naturales, Caracas. v. 62 (no. 1): 35-88.

• Reis, R. E. , S. O. Kullander, and C. J. Ferraris, Jr.  2003 Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and Central America. CLOFFSCA. Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and Central America. CLOFFSCA. 2003: i-xi + 1-729.

• Machado-Allison, A. , W. Fink, I. Mikolji and A. Marcano  2009 Designación de neotipo y redescripción de Serrasalmus nalseni Fernández-Yépez, 1969 (Characiformes, Serrasalmidae). Memoria de la Fundación La Salle de Ciencias Naturales v. 171: 121-131.

• William Eschmeyer California Academty of Sciences (CAS) VIEW.

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