Japigny
| Japigny | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gymnotiformes |
| Family: | Sternopygidae |
| Subfamily: | Eigenmanniinae |
| Genus: | Meunier, Jégu & Keith, 2011 |
| Species: | J. kirschbaum
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| Binomial name | |
| Japigny kirschbaum Meunier, Jégu & Keith, 2011
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Japigny is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sternopygidae, the glass knifefishes. The only species in the genus is Japigny kirschbaum which was described in 2011 from the Approuague, Mana and Maroni rivers in French Guiana. It reaches up to 22 cm (8.7 in) in total length and is brownish-dusky with a pattern of dark-and-pale broad bands (a similar pattern exists in Sternopygus astrabes and Sternopygus sarae).[2][3]
Etymology
The knifefish is named in honor of Frank Kirschbaum, of the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was a specialist in gymnotiform fishes because he had spawned and bred several species in the laboratory.[4]
References
- ^ Torgersen, K. (2023). "Japigny kirschbaum". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T176236997A176237011. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T176236997A176237011.en. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ^ Meunier, F.J., Jégu, M. & Keith, P. (2011): A new genus and species of neotropical electric fish, Japigny kirschbaum (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae), from French Guiana. Cybium, 35 (1): 47-53.
- ^ Torgersen, Kevin T.; Galindo-Cuervo, Aleidy M.; Reis, Roberto E.; Albert, James S. (2023). "A new species of barred Sternopygus (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from the Orinoco River". Neotropical Ichthyology. 21 (1). doi:10.1590/1982-0224-2022-0088. ISSN 1982-0224.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GYMNOTIFORMES (Neotropical Knifefishes)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 February 2022.