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CAS 42760 (IU 15259) Moenkhausia lepidurus latus Eigenmann [C. H.], 1908 Syntype  [Collection database record]
latus, Moenkhausia lepidurus Eigenmann [C. H.] 1908:103 [Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 52 (no. 6); ref. 1221] Northern part of Rio Tapajós, Pará, Brazil. Syntypes: (many) CAS 42760 [ex IU 15259 & MCZ 20860] (5, missing), MCZ 20860 (19), USNM 120278 [ex MCZ 20860] (4). Type catalog: Vari & Howe 1991:30 [ref. 19022]. See Planquette et al. 1996:308 [ref. 22818]. •Valid as Moenkhausia lata Eigenmann 1908 -- (Géry 1992:72 [ref. 20972], Benine in Reis et al. 2003:148 [ref. 27061], Géry & Zarske 2004:42 [ref. 28287], Marinho & Langeani 2010:60 [ref. 30941], Marinho & Langeani 2010:887 [ref. 30927], Petrolli & Benine 2015:417 [ref. 33887], Oliveira & Marinho 2016:573 [ref. 34342], Marinho & Langeani 2016:348 [ref. 34416], Azevedo-Santos & Benine 2016:208 [ref. 34837], Soares et al. 2017:261 [ref. 35237], Bogotá-Gregory et al. 2020:1400 [ref. 37878], Marinho & Benine 2024:229 [ref. 40817]). Current status: Valid as Moenkhausia lata Eigenmann 1908. Characidae: Stethaprioninae. Distribution: South America: western Amazon, Tapajós, Madeira and Oyapock River basins (Brazil, Colombia and French Guiana). Habitat: freshwater.
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