Austrolebias bellottii

Austrolebias bellottii, the Argentine pearlfish, is a species of killifish from the family Rivulidae which occurs in the basins of the Paraná River and Uruguay River, in Argentina and Uruguay.[1] This species was described as Cynolebias bellottii by the Austrian ichthyologistFranz Steindachner in 1881 from types collected at La Plata, Argentina.[2] The specific name honours the Italian biologist and paleontologist Cristoforo Bellotti (1823-1919), who supplied Steindachner with specimens from his collection at Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.[3] It is the type species of the genus Austrolebias.[4]

Austrolebias bellottii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Cyprinodontiformes
Family:	Rivulidae
Genus:	Austrolebias
Species:	A. bellottii
Binomial name
Austrolebias bellottii (Steindachner, 1881)
Synonyms[1]
Cynolebias bellottii Steindachner, 1881 Cynolebias maculatus Steindachner, 1881 Cynolebias gibberosus Berg, 1897 Cynolebias irregularis Ahl, 1938 Austrolebias apaii Costa, Laurino, Recuero & Salvia, 2006

References

1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Austrolebias bellottii" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Austrolebias bellottii". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (5 September 2019). "Order CYPRINODONTIFORMES: Family RIVULIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
4. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Austrolebias". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 10 September 2019.