Pygopristis gibbosus

Starks 1913

Pygopristis gibbosus, Starks Type

CURRENT STATUS: Synonym of Pristobrycon calmoni.

FROM FRANK MAGALLANES

Pygopristis gibbosus,  Starks 1913:17, Pl. 3 [Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Publ., Univ. Ser. Market at Pará, Brazil. Holotype: SU 22226. Paratypes: (several) AMNH 3932 (2), SU 22222 (9). Type catalog: Böhlke 1953:26. •Synonym of Pristobrycon calmoni (Steindachner 1908) -- (Jégu in Reis et al. 2003:188). Pristobrycon calmoni (Steindachner 1908).

REFERENCES

• Norman, Charles R., The South American Characid Fishes of the Subfamily Serrasalmoninae, with a Revision of the Genus Serrasalmus Lacepède. 1928

• Starks, E. C.   1913 (17 Mar.) The fishes of the Stanford expedition to Brazil. Stanford Univ. Publ., Univ. Ser.: 1-77, Pls. 1-15.

• Böhlke, J. E.   1953 (31 July)  A catalogue of the type specimens of Recent fishes in the Natural History Museum of Stanford University. Stanford Ichthyol. Bull. v. 5: 1-168.

• William Eschmeyer California Academty of Sciences (CAS) VIEW.

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