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Crenicichla lucenai

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Species of fish

Crenicichla lucenai
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cichliformes
Family: Cichlidae
Genus: Crenicichla
Species: C. lucenai
Binomial name
Crenicichla lucenai
Mattos, I. Schindler, Ottoni & Cheffe, 2014

Crenicichla lucenai is a species of cichlid native to South America. It is found swimming in the Upper Rio das Antas basin, Jacuí river drainage, dos Patos lagoon system in Brazil. This species reaches a length of 14.6 cm (5.7 in).

The fish is named in honor of Carlos Alberto Santos de Lucena, the curator of fishes at the Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia de Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, for his contributions to the taxonomy and systematics of the Crenicichla genus.

References

  1. "Crenicichla lucenai".
  2. Mattos, J.L., Schindler, I., Ottoni, F.P. & Cheffe, M.M. (2014): A new species of Crenicichla from the upper Rio das Antas basin, dos Patos lagoon system, southern Brazil (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Vertebrate Zoology, 64 (1): 35–42.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order Order CICHLIFORMES: Family CICHLIDAE: Subfamily CICHLINAE (a-c)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
Taxon identifiers
Crenicichla lucenai
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