Hyphessobrycon anisitsi – Buenos Aires Tetra | 水產百科網

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Hemigrammus anisitsi Eigenmann, 1907; Hemigrammus caudovittatus Ahl, 1923; Hyphessobrycon erythrurus Ahl, 1928

Hyphessobrycon: from the Ancient Greek υπελάσσων (hyphesson), meaning ‘of lesser stature’, and used as a prefix in this case, plus the generic name Brycon.

anisitsi: named for Professor J. D. Anisits of Asunción, Paraguay, who collected the type series.

Order: Characiformes Family: Characidae[1][2]

Widely-distributed throughout much of the Paraná river system in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, plus the Uruguay watershed in Uruguay and Brazil.

Type locality is given simply as ‘Villa Rica, Paraguay’, this referring to the city of Villarrica in Guairá Department, central Paraguay, with some of the type series also deriving from Estanci...