Makunaima
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| Makunaima | |
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| 1917 illustration of Makunaima guaporensis, the type species | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Acestrorhamphidae |
| Subfamily: | Megalamphodinae |
| Genus: | Makunaima Terán, Benitez & Mirande, 2020[1] |
| Type species | |
| Astyanax guaporensis C. H. Eigenmann, 1909[1] | |
Makunaima is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American tetras. The fishes in this genus are found in South America.
Makunaima was formally proposed as a genus by the Argentine ichthyologists Guillermo Enrique Terán, Mauricio F. Benítez and Juan Marcos Mirande in 2020. The species within this genus were formerly allocated to Astyanax[2] or Moenkhausia.[3] The type species of the genus was designated as Astyanax guaporensis,[1] which was first formally described in 1909 by Carl H. Eigenmann, with its type locality given as the Rio Guaporé at Maciel, Brazil.[3] This genus is classified within the subfamily Megalamphodinae, the red tetras,[4] of the American tetra family Acestrorhamphidae within the suborder Characoidei of the order Characiformes.[5]
Etymology
Etymologically, the genus name alludes to "Makunaima" (also transcribed as "Macunaima" or "Makonaima"), the name of a creator god for various ethnic groups in the Amazon.[2]
