Lebiasina

Lebiasina
Lebiasina sp.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Lebiasinidae
Subfamily: Lebiasininae
Genus: Lebiasina
Valenciennes, 1847
Type species
Lebiasina bimaculata
Valenciennes, 1847

Lebiasina is a genus of fishes found in tropical South America, where they inhabit well-oxygenated upland streams that originate in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, the Guianan Highlands in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela, and Serra do Cachimbo in Brazil.[1][2][3] The individual species tend to have relatively small ranges and the three species of Serra do Cachimbo, all restricted to the Curuá River basin,[3] are considered threatened by Brazil's Ministry of the Environment.[4]

They are elongated fish that reach up to 16 cm (6.3 in) in standard length.[1]

  1. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lebiasina". FishBase. April 2013 version.
  2. ^ Netto-Ferreira, A.L., Lopez-Fernandez, H., Taphorn, D.C. & Liverpool, E.A. (2013): New species of Lebiasina (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Lebiasinidae) from the upper Mazaruni River drainage, Guyana. Zootaxa, 3652 (5): 562–568.
  3. ^ a b Netto-Ferreira, A.L. (2012): Three new species of Lebiasina (Characiformes: Lebiasinidae) from the Brazilian Shield border at Serra do Cachimbo, Pará, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 10 (3): 487-498.
  4. ^ ICMBio (Ministry of the Environment, Brazil): Portaria MMA nº 445, de 17 de dezembro de 2014. Lista de Especies Ameaçadas - Saiba Mais. Retrieved 1 December 2018.