Orestias parinacotensis

Orestias parinacotensis is a species of pupfish in the family Cyprinodontidae. It is endemic to northern Chile.[2] This fish was described in 1982 by MarĂ­a Gloria Eliana Arratia Fuentes from a type locality given as a wetland near the hamlet of Parinacota, Chile called the Bofedales de Parinacota.[3]

Orestias parinacotensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Cyprinodontidae
Genus: Orestias
Species:
O. parinacotensis
Binomial name
Orestias parinacotensis
Arratia, 1982

References

  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Orestias parinacotensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T15494A4672992. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T15494A4672992.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Orestias parinacotensis" in FishBase. August 2019 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Orestias parinacotensis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 October 2019.


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