Checklist of the species of the Order Characiformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi)
Mônica Toledo‐Piza, Eduardo G. Baena, Fernando César Paiva Dagosta, Naércio A. Menezes, Marcelo Ândrade, Ricardo C. Benini, Vinicius de Araújo Bertaco, José Luís Olivan Birindelli, G. Boden, Paulo Andreas Buckup, Priscila Camelier, Fernando Rogério Carvalho, Ricardo Macedo Corrêa e Castro, Junior Chuctaya, Eva Decru, Eddy Derijst, Casey B. Dillman, Katiane M. Ferreira, D. Geelhand de Merxem, Victor Giovannetti, Alice Hirschmann, Michel Jégu, Fernando Camargo Jerep, Francisco Langeani, Flávio César Thadeo de Lima, Carlos Alberto Santos de Lucena, Zilda Margarete S. de Lucena, Luiz Roberto Malabarba, Maria Claudia Malabarba, Manoela Marinho, Kleber Mathubara, George Mendes Taliaferro Mattox, Bruno Francelino de Melo, Tuur Moelants, Cristiano R. Moreira, T. Musschoot, André Netto-Ferreira, Rafaela Priscila Ota, Osvaldo Takeshi Oyakawa, Carla Simone Pavanelli, Roberto Esser dos Reis, Osmar Souza dos Santos, Jane Piton Serra Sanches, Gabriel de Souza da Costa e Silva, Cárlison Silva‐Oliveira, Rosana Souza-Lima, Richard P. Vari, Angela Maria Zanata
Abstract
Abstract A checklist of recent and fossil fishes of the Order Characiformes is presented herein and believed to be complete through 2022. A total of 47 collaborators checked and provided information about their taxa of expertise. The list is arranged in alphabetical order by family and then genus and includes all available synonyms. From a total of 3,087 species group names and 527 genus group names, 2,334 species are currently treated as valid, and assigned to 301 genera and 24 families. This total includes 25 species known only from the fossil record, of which 21 are assigned to eight extant families and four are Incertae sedis in Characiformes, but does not include five species based on fossil which were wrongly treated in Characiformes. The status of 79 nominal species remains unresolved. When there are two competing hypotheses about the validity of a name, one of them is chosen and the alternate interpretation is provided in the remark section of that name. Distributional summaries are presented as numbers that correspond to areas for which there is a record of occurrence of the species. A list of unavailable names is provided at the end since some of those names may need additional research to certify their status.