WoRMS taxon details
Astyanax Baird & Girard, 1854
268424 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:268424)
accepted
Genus
Anoptichthys Hubbs & Innes, 1936 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Astianax Baird & Girard, 1854 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Bertoniolus Fowler, 1918 · unaccepted
Poecilurichthys Gill, 1858 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Zygogaster Eigenmann, 1913 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Astyanax aeneus (Günther, 1860)
- Species Astyanax anai Angulo, Santos, López, Langeani & McMahan, 2018
- Species Astyanax brucutu Zanata, Lima, Di Dario & Gerhard, 2017
- Species Astyanax dolinae da Graça, Oliveira, Lima, da Silva & Fernandes, 2017
- Species Astyanax lorien Zanata, Burger & Camelier, 2018
- Species Astyanax rupestris Zanata, Burger & Camelier, 2018
- Species Astyanax sincora Burger, Carvalho & Zanata, 2019
- Species Astyanax taurorum Lucena, Zaluski & Lucena, 2017
- Species Astyanax varii Zanata, Burger, Vita & Camelier, 2019
- Species Astyanax armandoi Lozano-Vilano & Contreras-Balderas, 1990 accepted as Astyanax aeneus (Günther, 1860) (synonym)
Baird, S. F.; Girard, C. F. (1854). Descriptions of new species of fishes collected in Texas, New Mexico and Sonora, by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, and in Texas by Capt. Stewart Van Vliet, U. S. A. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7: 24-29. [First author initials incorrectly as F. S.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Astyanax Baird & Girard, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=268424 on 2026-03-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Baird, S. F.; Girard, C. F. (1854). Descriptions of new species of fishes collected in Texas, New Mexico and Sonora, by Mr. John H. Clark, on the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Survey, and in Texas by Capt. Stewart Van Vliet, U. S. A. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 7: 24-29. [First author initials incorrectly as F. S.]. [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Astyanax)
To Fishbase (from synonym Poecilurichthys Gill, 1858)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Astyanax USNM 318467 photograph 2 of 4 specimens large and smallest)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Astyanax USNM 318467 photograph 2 of 4 specimens smallest)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Astyanax)
To Fishbase (from synonym Poecilurichthys Gill, 1858)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (Astyanax USNM 318467 photograph 2 of 4 specimens large and smallest)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Astyanax USNM 318467 photograph 2 of 4 specimens smallest)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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