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View Mode View All Pictures Species Eigenmannia virescens (Valenciennes 1836)    Eigenmannia virescens was originally described as Sternachus virescens by Valenciennes in 1836. It belongs to the family Sternopygidae. It is commonly known as Glass knifefish but has many other common names such as in USA (contiguous states) as Glass knifefish, in Colombia as Ratón, in Finland as Aavekala, in French Guiana as Poisson sabe, in Russian Federation as Zelenaya nozhetelka. more common names It is found in Fresh water and its distribution is Widely distributed east of Andes from Orinoco to La Plata River basins: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.   Species Species   Higher Taxa Higher Taxa   Original Original   Subspecies Subspecies   Current Current   General General   Name History Name History   Related Pages Related Pages   Species of this Genus Species of this Genus   Species   virescens AuthorWI   Valenciennes [A.] AuthorNI   Valenciennes Qualification   --- Year   1836 Status   Valid Class   Osteichthyes Osteichthyes Order   Gymnotiformes Gymnotiformes Family   Sternopygidae Subfamily   --- --- Genus   Eigenmannia Subgenus   --- Class   Osteichthyes Order   Gymnotiformes Family   Sternopygidae Genus   Eigenmannia Original Name   Sternachus         Taxon Name   virescens Original Combination   Sternachus virescens Original Genus   Sternachus Original Genus Species   Sternachus virescens OriginalSubGenus   Sternachus Original Author   Valenciennes Original AuthorWI   Valenciennes [A.] Original Qualification   --- Original Year   1836 Original Family   Apteronotidae Original SubFamily   --- Original Level   species Type Locality   South America. Primary Code   --- Primary Type   No types known Page   no p. Illustrations   Pl. 13 (fig. 2) SubSpecies AuthorWI   --- Qualification SS   --- Original QualificationSS   --- Current Subspecies AuthorWI   --- Current Genus Species   Eigenmannia virescens Current Species   virescens Current Genus   Eigenmannia Current AuthorWI   Müller [J.] & Troschel [F. H.] Current AuthorNI   Müller & Troschel Current Year   1836 Current Family   Sternopygidae Current Subfamily   --- --- Habitat   benthopelagic         Water   Fresh water     Distribution   Widely distributed east of Andes from Orinoco to La Plata River basins: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Current Summary   Valid as Eigenmannia virescens  (Valenciennes 1836). Sternopygidae.   Name History   • Mention -- (Malabarba 1989:156 [ref. 14217]). • Valid as Eigenmannia virescens  (Valenciennes 1836) -- (Ortega & Vari 1986:12 [ref. 9708], Mago-Leccia 1994:20 [ref. 21320], Planquette et al. 1996:386 [ref. 22818], Gómez & Chebez 1996:56 [ref. 23791], Castro & Casatti 1997:342 [ref. 23333], Galvis et al. 1997:101 [ref. 23651], Albert & Campos-da-Paz 1998:423 [ref. 23853], Sverlij et al. 1998:39 [ref. 27632] as Eigenmania, Britski et al. 1999:89 [ref. 24147], Butí & Cancino 1999:70 [ref. 25277], Keith & Meunier 2000:401 [ref. 25160], Lasso et al. 2001:100 [ref. 25928], Britski 2001:21 [ref. 26046], Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639], López et al. 2002:63 [ref. 26808], Albert in Reis et al. 2003:488 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:66 [ref. 27366], de Santana et al. 2004:2 [ref. 27412] as cf. virescens, Bertaco & Cardoso 2004:129 [ref. 28109], Menni 2004:85 [ref. 28131], Meunier et al. 2011:48 [ref. 31379]). Common Names  Common Names Picture  Picture Places  Places Hierarchy  Hierarchy First Publication  First Publication Collections   Collections Species Links  Species Links Name Combinations   Name Combinations References  References Page 1 of 1 (22 items). Click on a column heading to sort data. [1] Page size: 25 50 100 Drag a column header here to group by that column Species   Genus Species   Authorship   Status   antonioi Eigenmannia antonioi Peixoto [L. A. W.], Dutra [G. M.] & Wosiacki [W. B.] 2015 Valid besouro Eigenmannia besouro Peixoto [L. A. W.] & Wosiacki [W. B.] 2016 Valid conirostris Eigenmannia conirostris Eigenmann [C. H.] & Allen [W. R.] 1942 Synonym correntes Eigenmannia correntes Campos-da Paz [R.] & Queiroz [I. R.] 2017 Valid desantanai Eigenmannia desantanai Peixoto [L. A. W.], Dutra [G. M.] & Wosiacki [W. B.] 2015 Valid goajira Eigenmannia goajira Schultz [L. P.] 1949 Valid guairaca Eigenmannia guairaca Peixoto [L. A. W.], Dutra [G. M.] & Wosiacki [W. B.] 2015 Valid humboldtii Eigenmannia humboldtii (Steindachner [F.] 1878) Valid limbata Eigenmannia limbata (Schreiner [C.] & Miranda Ribeiro [A. de] 1903) Valid limbatus Eigenmannia limbatus (Schreiner [C.] & Miranda Ribeiro [A. de] 1903) Synonym lineatus Eigenmannia lineatus (Müller [J.] & Troschel [F. H.] 1849) Synonym macrops Eigenmannia macrops (Boulenger [G. A.] 1897) Valid matintapereira Eigenmannia matintapereira Peixoto [L. A. W.], Dutra [G. M.] & Wosiacki [W. B.] 2015 Valid microstoma Eigenmannia microstoma (Reinhardt [J. T.] 1852) Valid microstomus Eigenmannia microstomus (Reinhardt [J. T.] 1852) Spelling muirapinima Eigenmannia muirapinima Peixoto [L. A. W.], Dutra [G. M.] & Wosiacki [W. B.] 2015 Valid nigra Eigenmannia nigra Mago-Leccia [F.] 1994 Valid pavulagem Eigenmannia pavulagem Peixoto [L. A. W.], Dutra [G. M.] & Wosiacki [W. B.] 2015 Valid trilineata Eigenmannia trilineata López [R. B.] & Castello [H. P.] 1966 Valid tumifrons Eigenmannia tumifrons (Müller [J.] & Troschel [F. H.] 1849) Synonym vicentespelaea Eigenmannia vicentespelaea Triques [M. L.] 1996 Valid waiwai Eigenmannia waiwai Peixoto [L. A. W.], Dutra [G. M.] & Wosiacki [W. B.] 2015 Valid Begins with Contains Doesn't contain Ends with Equals Doesn't equal Is less than Is less than or equal to Is greater than Is greater than or equal to Like ('%', '_') Page 1 of 1 (22 items). Click on a column heading to sort data. [1] Page size: 25 50 100 Create Filter   Loading…