Boulengerella
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| Boulengerella | |
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| Boulengerella maculata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Ctenoluciidae |
| Genus: | Boulengerella C. H. Eigenmann, 1903[1] |
| Type species | |
| Xiphostoma lateristriga | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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.[2] The currently described species are:
- Boulengerella cuvieri (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) (bicuda)
- 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
