Genus count #

species count ##

Synonym of a Genus S

Subgenus sg

Synonym of a Subgenus s

#

##

S

sg

s

Genus -- species

First Describer

Date

61

Scriptaphyosemion

A.C. Radda & E. Pürzl

1987

1

Script. banforense

(Seegers)

1982

2

Script. bertholdi

(Roloff)

1965

3

Script. brueningi

(Roloff)

1971

4

Script. cauveti

Romand & Ozouf-Costaz

1995

5

Script. chaytori

(Roloff)

1971

6

Script. etzeli

(Berkenkamp)

1979

7

Script. fredrodi

(Vandersmissen, Etzel, & Berkenkamp)

1980

8

Script. geryi

(Lambert)

1958

9

Script. guignardi

(Romand)

1981

10

Script. liberiense

(Boulenger)

1908

11

Script. nigrifluvi

(Romand)

1982

12

Script. roloffi

(Roloff)

1936

13

Script. schmitti

(Romand)

1979

62

Simpsonichthys

A.L. de Carvalho

1959

1

Simp. alternatus

(Costa & Brasil)

1994

2

Simp. antenori

(Tulipano)

1973

3

Simp. boitonei

de Carvalho

1959

4

Simp. bokermanni

(de Carvalho & Cruz)

1987

5

Simp. chacoensis

(Amato)

1986

6

Simp. constanciae

(Myers)

1942

7

Simp. costai

(Lazara)

1991

8

Simp. filamentosus

Costa, Barrera, & Sarmiento

1997

9

Simp. flammeus

(Costa)

1989

10

Simp. flavicaudatus

(Costa & Brasil)

1990

11

Simp. fulminantis

(Costa & Brasil)

1993

12

Simp. ghisolfii

Costa, Cyrino, & Nielsen

1996

13

Simp. hellneri

(Berkenkamp)

1993

14

Simp. magnificus

(Costa & Brasil)

1991

15

Simp. marginatus

Costa & Brasil

1996

16

Simp. multiradiatus

(Costa & Brasil)

1994

17

Simp. notatus

(Costa, Lacerda, & Brasil)

1990

18

Simp. santanae

(Shibata & Garavello)

1992

19

Simp. similis

Costa & Hellner

1999

20

Simp. stellatus

(Costa & Brasil)

1994

21

Simp. trilineatus

(Costa & Brasil)

1994

22

Simp. zonatus

(Costa & Brasil)

1990

63

Spectrolebias

W.J.E.M Costa & D.T.B. Nielsen

1997

1

Spectrolebias semiocellatus

Costa & Nielsen

1997

64

Stenolebias

W.J.E.M. Costa

1995

1

Stenolebias bellus

Costa

1995

2

Stenolebias damascenoi

(Costa)

1991

65

Terranatos

D.C. Taphorn & J.E. Thomerson

1978

1

Terranatos dolichopterus

(Weitzman & Wourms)

1967

66

Tomeurus

C.H. Eigenmann

1909

1

Tomeurus gracilis

Eigenmann

1909

67

Trigonectes

G.S. Myers

1925

sg

Rivulichthys

G.S. Myers

1927

1

Trig. aplocheiloides

Huber

1995

2

Trig. balzanii

(Perugia)

1891

3

Trig. macrophthalmus

Costa

1990

4

Trig. rogoaguae

(Pearson & Myers)

1924

5

Trig. rubromarginatus

Costa

1990

6

Trig. strigabundus

Myers

1925

68

Valencia

G.S. Myers

1928

1

Valencia hispanica

(Valenciennes)

1846

2

Valencia letourneuxi

(Sauvage)

1880

Total Genera

68

Total Genera Synonyms

17

Total Subgenera

41

Total Subgenera Synonyms

4

Total species

706

The most populated genera:

Rivulus

92

Aphyosemion

90

Epiplatys

48

Cyprinodon

47

Orestias

47

Aplocheilichthys

45

Nothobranchius

43

Fundulus

38