Leporinus
{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic Taxobox
| image = Banded Leporinus (Leporinus fasciatus) (7124562451).jpg
| image_caption = Leporinus fasciatus
| image2 = Leporinus friderici.jpg
| image2_caption = Leporinus friderici
| taxon = Leporinus
| authority = Agassiz, 1829
| type_species = Leporinus novemfasciatus
| type_species_authority = Spix & Agassiz, 1829
}}
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Leporinus is a genus of fish in the family Anostomidae native to South America. The fossil species Leporinus scalabrinii, known from the late Miocene of Entre Ríos in Argentina, has only recently been added to this genus after being misidentified as a species of primate under the name Arrhinolemur scalabrinii for over 100 years.Bogan, S., Sidlauskas, B., Vari, R.P. & Agnolin, F. (2012): [http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ni/v10n3/08.pdf Arrhinolemur scalabrinii Ameghino, 1898, of the late Miocene - a taxonomic journey from the Mammalia to the Anostomidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes).] Neotropical Ichthyology, 10 (3): 555–560.
Species
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There are currently 78 recognized species in this genus:
{{Div col|content=* Leporinus acutidens (Valenciennes, 1837)
- Leporinus affinis Günther, 1864
- Leporinus agassizii Steindachner, 1876
- Leporinus altipinnis Borodin, 1929Britski, H.A. & Birindelli, J.L.O. (2016): [http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/pdf/ief27_1_03.pdf Redescription of Leporinus altipinnis, a senior synonym of L. falcipinnis, and comments on L. holostictus (Characiformes: Anostomidae).] Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27 (1): 25-40.
- Leporinus amae Godoy (pt), 1980
- Leporinus amazonicus G. M. dos Santos & Zuanon, 2008
- Leporinus amblyrhynchus Garavello & Britski, 1987
- Leporinus apollo Sidlauskas, Mol & Vari, 2011Sidlauskas, B.L., Mol, J.H. & Vari, R.P. (2011): Dealing with allometry in linear and geometric morphometrics: a taxonomic case study in the Leporinus cylindriformis group (Characiformes: Anostomidae) with description of a new species from Suriname. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 162 (1): 103-130.
- Leporinus arcus C. H. Eigenmann, 1912
- Leporinus arimaspi Burns, Frable & Sidlauskas, 2014Burns, M.D., Frable, B.W. & Sidlauskas, B.L. (2014): [http://fishmodo.org/sites/default/files/burns2014.pdf A New Species of Leporinus (Characiformes: Anostomidae), from the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407233657/http://fishmodo.org/sites/default/files/burns2014.pdf |date=2017-04-07 }} Copeia, 2014 (2): 206-214.
- Leporinus aripuanaensis Garavello & G. M. dos Santos, 1981
- Leporinus bahiensis Steindachner, 1875
- Leporinus bimaculatus Castelnau, 1855
- Leporinus bistriatus Britski, 1997
- Leporinus bleheri Géry, 1999
- Leporinus boehlkei Garavello, 1988
- Leporinus britskii Feitosa, G. M. dos Santos & Birindelli, 2011Feitosa, F.d.S., Santos, G.M.d. & Birindelli, J.L.O. (2011): [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z03120p062f.pdf Leporinus britskii: a new anostomid species from the Tapajós and Jari drainages, Brazil (Characiformes: Anostomidae).] Zootaxa, 3120: 55–62.
- Leporinus brunneus G. S. Myers, 1950
- Leporinus cylindriformis Borodin, 1929
- Leporinus desmotes Fowler, 1914
- Leporinus ecuadorensis C. H. Eigenmann & Henn, 1916
- Leporinus enyae Burns, Chatfield, Birindelli, & Sidlauskas 2017{{cite journal | title = Systematic assessment of the Leporinus desmotes species complex, with a description of two new species | author1 = Burns, Michael D.| author2 = Chatfield, Marcus | author3 = Birindelli, José L.O. | author4 = Sidlauskas, Brian L. | journal = Neotropical Ichthyology | volume = 15 | issue = 2 | year = 2017 | doi = 10.1590/1982-0224-20160166| doi-access = free }}
- Leporinus fasciatus (Bloch, 1794)
- Leporinus friderici (Bloch, 1794)
- Leporinus geminis Garavello & G. M. dos Santos, 2009
- Leporinus gomesi Garavello & G. M. dos Santos, 1981
- Leporinus gossei Géry, Planquette & Le Bail, 1991
- Leporinus granti C. H. Eigenmann, 1912
- Leporinus guttatus Birindelli & Britski, 2009
- Leporinus jamesi Garman, 1929Garavello, J.C., Britski, H.A. & Birindelli, J.L.O. (2014): [http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ni/v12n2/1679-6225-ni-12-02-00317.pdf Redescription of Leporinus jamesi (Characiformes: Anostomidae), a poorly known species of Leporinus from the lowlands of the central Amazon, Brazil.] Neotropical Ichthyology, 12 (2): 317-326.
- Leporinus jatuncochi Ovchynnyk, 1971
- Leporinus klausewitzi Géry, 1960
- Leporinus lacustris Amaral Campos, 1945
- Leporinus lebaili Géry & Planquette, 1983
- Leporinus leschenaulti Valenciennes, 1850
- Leporinus maculatus J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1844
- Leporinus marcgravii Lütken, 1875
- Leporinus melanopleura Günther, 1864
- Leporinus melanopleurodes Birindelli, Britski & Garavello, 2013Birindelli, J.L.O., Britski, H.A. & Garavello, J.C. (2013): [http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ni/v11n1/1679-6225-ni-11-01-0009.pdf Two new species of Leporinus Agassiz (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from eastern basins of Brazil, and redescription of L. melanopleura Günther.] Neotropical Ichthyology, 11 (1): 9-23.
- Leporinus melanostictus Norman, 1926
- Leporinus microphthalmus Garavello, 1989
- Leporinus microphysus Birindelli & Britski, 2013Birindelli, J.L.O. & Britski, H.A. (2013): Two new species of Leporinus (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from the Brazilian Amazon, and redescription of Leporinus striatus Kner 1858. Journal of Fish Biology, 83 (5): 1128–1160.
- Leporinus moralesi Fowler, 1942
- Leporinus multifasciatus Cope, 1878
- Leporinus multimaculatus Birindelli, Teixeira & Britski, 2016BIRINDELLI, J. L. O., TEIXEIRA, T. F., & BRITSKI, H. A. (2016). Two new species of Leporinus Agassiz, 1929 (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from tributaries of the lower Amazon basin in Brazil. Zootaxa, 4178(1), 97–115. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4178.1.4
- Leporinus muyscorum (Steindachner, 1900)
- Leporinus nattereri Steindachner, 1876
- Leporinus niceforoi Fowler, 1943
- Leporinus nigrotaeniatus (Jardine, 1841)
- Leporinus nijsseni Garavello, 1990
- Leporinus octofasciatus Steindachner, 1915
- Leporinus octomaculatus Britski & Garavello, 1993
- Leporinus ortomaculatus Garavello, 2000
- Leporinus pachyurus Valenciennes, 1850
- Leporinus parae C. H. Eigenmann, 1907
- Leporinus paranensis Garavello & Britski, 1987
- Leporinus parvulus Birindelli, Britski & F. C. T. Lima, 2013Birindelli, J.L.O., Britski, H.A. & Lima, F.C.T. (2013): New Species of Leporinus from the Rio Tapajós Basin, Brazil, and Redescription of L. moralesi (Characiformes: Anostomidae). Copeia, 2013 (2): 238–247.
- Leporinus pearsoni Fowler, 1940
- Leporinus piau Fowler, 1941
- Leporinus pitingai G. M. dos Santos & Jégu, 1996
- Leporinus platycephalus Meinken, 1935
- Leporinus punctatus Garavello, 2000
- Leporinus reticulatus Britski & Garavello, 1993
- Leporinus santosi Britski & Birindelli, 2013Britski, H.A. & Birindelli, J.L.O. (2013): [http://www.scielo.br/pdf/ni/v11n1/1679-6225-ni-11-01-0025.pdf A new species of Leporinus Agassiz, 1829 (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from the rio Tocantins, Brazil.] Neotropical Ichthyology, 11 (1): 25-32.
- †Leporinus scalabrinii {{Small|(Ameghino, 1898)}}
- Leporinus sexstriatus Britski & Garavello, 1980
- Leporinus sidlauskasi {{Small|Britski & Birindelli, 2019}}{{Cite journal|last1=Britski|first1=Heraldo A.|last2=Birindelli|first2=José L.|date=2019-05-08|title=Description of a new species of Leporinus (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from the Rio Tapajós basin, Brazil|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4603.1.10|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4603|issue=1|pages=183–191|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4603.1.10|pmid=31717246 |s2cid=165059618 |issn=1175-5334}}
- Leporinus spilopleura Norman, 1926
- Leporinus steyermarki R. F. Inger, 1956
- Leporinus striatus Kner, 1858
- Leporinus subniger Fowler, 1943
- Leporinus taeniatus Lütken, 1875
- Leporinus taeniofasciatus Britski, 1997
- Leporinus tigrinus Borodin, 1929
- Leporinus torrenticola Birindelli, Teixeira & Britski, 2016
- Leporinus trimaculatus Garavello & G. M. dos Santos, 1992
- Leporinus tristriatus Birindelli & Britski, 2013
- Leporinus unitaeniatus Garavello & G. M. dos Santos, 2009
- Leporinus villasboasorum Burns et al., 2017
- Leporinus vanzoi Britski & Garavello, 2005
- Leporinus venerei Britski & Birindelli, 2008
- Leporinus yophorus C. H. Eigenmann, 1922}}
† = extinct
Synonyms
The following species were formerly placed in Leporinus but have since been moved to other genera:{{Cite journal|last1=Birindelli|first1=José L. O.|last2=Melo|first2=Bruno F.|last3=Ribeiro-Silva|first3=Luís R.|last4=Diniz|first4=Debora|last5=Oliveira|first5=Claudio|date=2020-07-01|title=A New Species of Hypomasticus from Eastern Brazil Based on Morphological and Molecular Data (Characiformes, Anostomidae)|url=https://bioone.org/journals/copeia/volume-108/issue-2/CI-19-335/A-New-Species-of-Hypomasticus-from-Eastern-Brazil-Based-on/10.1643/CI-19-335.full|journal=Copeia|volume=108|issue=2|pages=416–425|doi=10.1643/CI-19-335|s2cid=220688066 |issn=0045-8511}}
- Hypomasticus copelandii was described as Leporinus copelandii {{Small|Steindachner, 1875}}
- Hypomasticus steindachneri was described as Leporinus steindachneri C. H. Eigenmann, 1907
References
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Category:Fish of South America