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View Mode Genus Hydrocinus Cuvier 1816   Genus Genus   Hierarchy Hierarchy   Original Genus Original Genus   Current Genus Current Genus   Name History Name History   Genus   Hydrocinus AuthorWI   Cuvier [G.] AuthorNI   Cuvier Qualification   --- Year   1816 Status   Spelling Gender   masculine Class   Osteichthyes Order   Characiformes Family   Alestidae Subfamily   --- Tribe   --- Original Genus   Hydrocinus Original AuthorWI   Cuvier [G.] Original AuthorNI   Cuvier Original Family   Alestidae Original Sub Family   --- --- Original Year   1816 Gender   masculine Type Species   Hydrocynus lucius Type Species AuthorWI   Cuvier [G.] Type Species AuthorNI   Cuvier Type Species Qualification   --- Type Species Year   1816 Type Designation   Type by subsequent designation. Current Genus   Hydrocynus Current AuthorWI   Cuvier [G.] Current AuthorNI   Cuvier Current Year   1816 Current Family   Alestidae Current Summary   Valid as Hydrocynus  Cuvier 1816. Alestidae.   Name History   Hydrocion Duméril 1856 and Hydrocinus Boulenger (ex Cuvier) 1909 are unjustified emendations or incorrect subsequent spellings. Type apparently not H. forskahlii Cuvier 1819. Hydrocionichthys Travassos 1952 is an objective synonym if the type of Hydrocynus is forskahlii. But the type species, if correctly H. lucius, is a South American species placed by current authors in the genus Boulengerella in a different family. An African type species for Hydrocynus, such as forskahlii, would stabilize current usage. See Brewster 1986:164 [ref. 8104]. •Valid as an African genus -- (Géry 1977:54 [ref. 1597], Paugy 1984:169 [ref. 6183], Brewster 1986:163 [ref. 8104], Paugy & Guégan 1989:64 [ref. 26479] with date as 1819, Lévêque et al. 1989:116 [ref. 26480], Paugy & Bénech 1989:300 [ref. 26478], Paugy in Lévêque et al. 1990:198 [ref. 21589], Paugy et al. 1990:337 [ref. 26477], Poll & Gosse 1995:141 [ref. 24781], Seegers 1996:165 [ref. 23725], Dankwa et al. 1999:18 [ref. 28023], Zanata & Vari 2005;117 [ref. 28816], Ibala Zamba et al. 2007:1213 [ref. 29470], Paugy & Schaefer 2007:353 [ref. 30022], Mirande 2009:6 [ref. 30267] in Alestidae, Mirande 2010:474 [ref. 31006], Oliveira et al. 2011:10 [ref. 31685], Marshall 2011:138 [ref. 31755]). Current status: Valid as Hydrocynus Cuvier 1816. Alestidae. Loading…