Brycon falcatus
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| Brycon falcatus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Bryconidae |
| Genus: | Brycon |
| Species: | B. falcatus |
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| Brycon falcatus J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1844 | |
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Brycon falcatus, the blacktail brycon, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Bryconidae, the doradas and jaw characins. This species is found in northern South America.
Brycon falcatus was first formally described in 1844 by the German zoologists Johannes Peter Müller and Franz Hermann Troschel, with its type locality given as Guyana and Suriname.[2] When Müller and Troschel described this species they proposed a new genus, Brycon, and in 1910 Carl H. Eigenmann designated this species as the type species of the genus Brycon. This genus is classified within the subfamily Bryconinae of the family Bryconidae[3] in the suborder Characoidei of the order Characiformes.[4] In 1841 William Jardine described Chalceus labrosus; this is now considered to be a synonym of B. falcatus and is regarded as a nomen oblitum.[2]
Etymology
Brycon falcatus is the type species of the genus Brycon. This name is derived from the Greek brýchō (βρύχω), which means "to bite", "gnash teeth" or "eat greedily", thought to be an allusion to the fully toothed maxillae of this species. The specific name, falcatus, means "sickle-shaped" in Latin, an allusion to the sickle-shaped black marking on the caudal fin.[5]