WoRMS taxon details
Pterophyllum Heckel, 1840
Plataxoides Castelnau, 1855 · unaccepted
- Species Pterophyllum altum Pellegrin, 1903
- Species Pterophyllum leopoldi (Gosse, 1963)
- Species Pterophyllum scalare (Schultze, 1823)
- Species Pterophyllum dumerilii (Castelnau, 1855) accepted as Pterophyllum scalare (Schultze, 1823)
- Species Pterophyllum eimekei Ahl, 1928 accepted as Pterophyllum scalare (Schultze, 1823)
Not documented
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pterophyllum Heckel, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=270649 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Plataxoides Castelnau, 1855) Castelnau, F. L. (1855). Poissons. In: Animaux nouveaux or rares recueillis pendant l'expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro a Lima, et de Lima au Para; exécutée par ordre du gouvernement Français pendant les années 1843 a 1847 ... Part 7,. <em>Zoologie. Paris (P. Bertrand).</em> v. 2: i-xii + 1-112, Pls. 1-50. [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
