Leptolebias splendens

Leptolebias splendens, also known as the Splendid pearlfish is a species of killifish in the family Rivulidae endemic to Brazil,[3] in the vicinity of Rio de Janeiro.[2] This species was described as Cynolebias splendens in 1942 by George S. Myers with the type locality given as water holes or ponds along the foot of the Serra de Petropolis in Rio de Janeiro State.[4] Deforestation and urbanisation led to the species disappearance from the area of its type locality and it was thought to be extinct but it was rediscovered 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from the type locality some 70 years after the last known previous record.[5]

Leptolebias splendens
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Rivulidae
Genus: Leptolebias
Species:
L. splendens
Binomial name
Leptolebias splendens
(Myers, 1942)
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Leptolepanchax splendens (Myers, 1942)
  • Cynolebias splendens Myers, 1942
  • Cynopoecilus splendens (Myers, 1942)
  • Cynopoecilus sandrii Faria & Muller, 1937

References
  1. World Conservation Monitoring Centre (1996). "Leptolebias splendens". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T6088A12411256. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T6088A12411256.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Leptolebias splendens" in FishBase. April 2019 version.
  3. Costa, W.J.E.M. (2016): Comparative morphology and classification of South American cynopoeciline killifishes (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheilidae), with notes on family-group names used for aplocheiloids. Vertebrate Zoology, 66 (2): 125-140.
  4. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Leptolebias splendens". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  5. Wilson J. E. M. Costa; José L. O. Mattos; Pedro F. Amorim (2019). "Rediscovery of Leptopanchax splendens (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheilidae): a seasonal killifish from the Atlantic Forest of south‐eastern Brazil that was recently considered extinct". Journal of Fish Biology. 94 (2): 345–347. doi:10.1111/jfb.13898. PMID 30604425. Abstract


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