Leporinus vanzoi

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| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio). |year=2022 |title=Leporinus vanzoi |volume=2022 |page=e.T139549288A139549292 |doi= |access-date=19 March 2023}}

| taxon = Leporinus vanzoi

| authority = Britski & Garavello, 2005

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Leporinus vanzoi is a species of anostomid fish. It is endemic to Brazil and found in the Tapajós (upper Amazon basin). It can grow to {{convert|11.8|cm|abbr=on}} standard length.

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of herpetologist Paulo Emílio “Vanzo” Vanzolini (1924–2013), the founder of Expedição Permanente à Amazônia (EPA), which has greatly contributed to the Amazonian fish collection at the Universidade de São Paulo, Museu de Zoologia in São Paulo, Brazil and to Brazilian fish studies in general. The type specimens were collected by members of the EPA under the direction of Vanzolini.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/characiformes2/ | title = Order CHARACIFORMES: Families TARUMANIIDAE, ERYTHRINIDAE, PARODONTIDAE, CYNODONTIDAE, SERRASALMIDAE, HEMIODONTIDAE, ANOSTOMIDAE and CHILODONTIDAE | access-date= 26 March 2022 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | date = 22 September 2018}}

References

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{{cite journal |last1=Britski |first1=Heraldo A. |last2=Birindelli |first2=José L. O. |title=Uma nova espécie de Leporinus Agassiz,1829, da bacia Amazónica (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Anostomidae) |trans-title=New species of Leporinus Agassiz, 1829, from the Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Anostomidae) |journal=Comunicações do Museu de Ciências e Tecnologia da PUCRS |series=Sér. Zoologia |date=2008 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=75–83 |url=https://editora.pucrs.br/edipucrs/acessolivre/periodicos/comunicacoes-mct/download/2005.v18.n2.pdf |language=Portuguese }}

{{Cof record |spid=69441 |title=Leporinus vanzoi |access-date=19 March 2023}}

{{FishBase | genus = Leporinus | species = vanzoi | month = August | year = 2022 }}

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Category:Anostomidae

Category:Freshwater fish of Brazil

Category:Endemic fish of Brazil

Category:Taxa named by Heraldo Antonio Britski

Category:Taxa named by Júlio César Garavello

Category:Fish described in 2005