Boulengerella
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| Boulengerella maculata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Ctenoluciidae |
| Genus: | Boulengerella C. H. Eigenmann, 1903 |
Boulengerella is a genus of pike-characins from tropical South America, found in the Amazon Basin, Orinoco, and rivers of the Guiana Shield. Boulengerella was named after the Belgian ichthyologist George Albert Boulenger. The currently described species are:
- Boulengerella cuvieri (Spix & Agassiz, 1829)
- Boulengerella lateristriga (Boulenger, 1895) (striped pike-characin)
- Boulengerella lucius (G. Cuvier, 1816) (golden pike-characin)
- Boulengerella maculata (Valenciennes, 1850) (spotted pike-characin)
- Boulengerella xyrekes Vari, 1995
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Boulengerella in FishBase. October 2011 version.
- ^ Taphorn, Donald Charles (1990). Characiform fishes of the Apure River drainage, Venezuela. p. 673.
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