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Genus of fishes

Pseudorestias
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Cyprinodontiformes
Family: Cyprinodontidae
Genus: Pseudorestias
Arratia, Vila, Lam, Guerrero & Quezada-Romegialli, 2017
Species: P. lirimensis
Binomial name
Pseudorestias lirimensis
Arratia, Vila, Lam, Guerrero & Quezada-Romegialli, 2017

Pseudorestias is a monospecific genus in the family Cyprinodontidae, the pupfishes. The only species in the genus is Pseudorestias lirimensis which was described in 2017. from a type locality given as "Charvinto Creek near to the thermal pond Baños San Andrés about 6 km E of Lirima village, Chancacolla River, Tarapacá Region, northern Chile". It was also found in the Chancacolla River.

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pseudorestias lirimensis". FishBase. August 2019 version.
  2. Gloria Arratia; Irma Vila; Natalia Lam; Claudia Jimena Guerrero & Claudio Quezada-Romegialli (2017). "Morphological and taxonomic descriptions of a new genus and species of killifishes (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) from the high Andes of northern Chile". PLOS ONE. 12 (8): e0181989. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1281989A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181989. PMC 5549709. PMID 28792510.
Taxon identifiers
Pseudorestias
Pseudorestias lirimensis
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