Ctenolucius beani
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| Ctenolucius beani | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Ctenoluciidae |
| Genus: | Ctenolucius |
| Species: | C. beani |
| Binomial name | |
| Ctenolucius beani (Fowler, 1907) | |
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Ctenolucius beani is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ctenoluciidae, the pike-characins. This fish is found in northern South America and southern Panama.
Ctenolucius beani was first formally described as Belonocharax beani in 1907 by the American zoologist Henry Weed Fowler, with its type locality given as Truando in the Río Atrato basin in the Isthmus of Darien in Colombia.[2] When Fowler described this species, he proposed the new monospecific genus Belonocharax, but this is now considered to be a synonym of Ctenolucius, a genus proposed in 1861 by Theodore Gill.[3] Ctenolucius is one of two genera within the pike-characin family, Ctenoluciidae, which is in the suborder Characoidei of the order Characiformes.[4]
Etymology
Ctenolucius beani is one of two species in the genus Ctenolucius. This name combines cteno, from the Greek ktenós, meaning "comb", and the Latin lucius, which means "pike". The specific name, beani, honours the American ichthyologist Barton Appler Bean, who was assistant curator of fishes at the United States National Museum and the brother of the ichthyologist Tarleton Hoffman Bean.[5]