Species that contain: Anableps and anableps [ 9 ] records

anableps, Cobitis Linnaeus [C.] 1758:303 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] India [in error, possibly Suriname]. Syntype: ZMUC 417 (1). Type information: Wheeler 1989:216 [ref. 21873]. Based on pre-Linnaean sources, including the Anableps of Artedi (ex Seba) 1738:25 [ref. 30578] and 1738:43 [ref. 30349], and Gronow 1754:12, Pl. 1, figs. 1-3 [ref. 20783]. •Valid as Anableps anableps (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Parenti 1981:501 [ref. 7066], Cervigón 1992:254 [ref. 23827], Keith et al. 2000:52 [ref. 24547], Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639], Ghedotti & Wiley 2003:1153 [ref. 27019], Ghedotti in Reis et al. 2003:583 [ref. 27061], Perez et al. 2017:1 [ref. 35239], Marceniuk et al. 2017:39 [ref. 35324], Huber 2019:9 [ref. 36941], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:323 [ref. 38945], Koerber et al. 2022:78 [ref. 39235], Carvalho-Filho 2023:93 [ref. 40480], Gurgel-Lourenço et al. 2023:80 [ref. 41056], Vieira et al. 2023:19 [ref. 40759]). Current status: Valid as Anableps anableps (Linnaeus 1758). Anablepidae: Anablepinae. Distribution: South America: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

coarctatus, Anableps Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846:266, Pl. 540 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 18; ref. 1011] Cayenne, French Guiana. Syntypes: MNHN B-0938 (2). Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:32 [ref. 19576]. •Synonym of Anableps microlepis Müller & Troschel 1844 -- (Ghedotti in Reis et al. 2003:583 [ref. 27061], Huber 2019:10 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Synonym of Anableps microlepis Müller & Troschel 1844. Anablepidae: Anablepinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

dowei, Anableps Gill [T. N.] 1861:4 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 13; ref. 17543] El Salvador. Holotype (unique): USNM 6048. Type catalog: Böhlke 1984:18 [ref. 13621], Smith 2018:68 [ref. 36061]. Originally as dowei which appears to be intentional and not an inadvertent error. Named after Captain John M. Dow, so probably dowii was meant, possibly corrected by the printer or typesetter (Huber 2019:10 [ref. 36941]). In nineteenth century contemporary papers spelled dowii. Species epithet also seen as dowi or dovii. lANSP 6982 and USNM 8005 (3) are not types. Likely the holotype is the remaining specimen in USNM 6048 (D. G. Smith, pers. comm. 7/22/2011) •Valid as Anableps dowii Gill 1861 -- (Parenti 1981:501 [ref. 7066], Villa 1982:143 [ref. 36708], Espinosa Pérez et al. 1993:44 [ref. 22290], Ghedotti 2000:38 [ref. 27228], Ghedotti in Reis et al. 2003:583 [ref. 27061], Nelson et al. 2004:103 [ref. 27807], Miller 2006:209 [ref. 28615], Matamoros et al. 2009:15 [ref. 31241], McMahan et al. 2013:447 [ref. 32422], Page et al. 2013:108 [ref. 32708], Romero-Berny et al. 2018:90 [ref. 35859], González-Murcia et al. 2019:296 [ref. 36544], Huber 2019:10 [ref. 36941], Angulo et al. 2023:64 [ref. 40676], Carvalho-Filho 2023:93 [ref. 40480] as dowei). Current status: Valid as Anableps dowii Gill 1861. Anablepidae: Anablepinae. Distribution: Southern North America, Central America: Pacific slope (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua). Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

elongatus, Anableps Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846:267, Pl. 541 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 18; ref. 1011] Cayenne, French Guiana. Holotype (unique): MNHN B-0937. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:32 [ref. 19576]. •Synonym of Anableps microlepis Müller & Troschel 1844 -- (Ghedotti in Reis et al. 2003:583 [ref. 27061], Huber 2019:10 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Synonym of Anableps microlepis Müller & Troschel 1844. Anablepidae: Anablepinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

gronovii, Anableps Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1846:252, Pls. 538-539 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 18; ref. 1011] Cayenne, French Guiana. Holotype (unique): MNHN B-0936. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:32 [ref. 19576]. •Synonym of Anableps anableps (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Ghedotti in Reis et al. 2003:583 [ref. 27061], Huber 2019:10 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Synonym of Anableps anableps (Linnaeus 1758). Anablepidae: Anablepinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

lineatus, Anableps Gronow [L. T.] in Gray 1854:192 [Catalogue of fish collected and described by Laurence Theodore Gronow; ref. 1911] Probably Suriname. Holotype (unique): ZMUC 417. Type information: Wheeler 1989:216 [ref. 21873]. •Synonym of Anableps anableps (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Ghedotti in Reis et al. 2003:583 [ref. 27061], Huber 2019:11 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Synonym of Anableps anableps (Linnaeus 1758). Anablepidae: Anablepinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

microlepis, Anableps Müller [J.] & Troschel [F. H.] 1844:36 [Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1844; ref. 19738] Guyana. No types known. Type catalog: Paepke & Seegers 1986:172 [ref. 19981]. •Valid as Anableps microlepis Müller & Troschel 1844 -- (Parenti 1981:501 [ref. 7066], Cervigón 1991:210 [ref. 24472], Cervigón 1992:254 [ref. 23827], Keith et al. 2000:52 [ref. 24547], Camargo & Isaac 2001:140 [ref. 27639], Ghedotti & Wiley 2003:1153 [ref. 27019], Ghedotti in Reis et al. 2003:583 [ref. 27061], Marceniuk et al. 2017:39 [ref. 35324], Huber 2019:11 [ref. 36941], Caires et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:324 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:93 [ref. 40480]). Current status: Valid as Anableps microlepis Müller & Troschel 1844. Anablepidae: Anablepinae. Distribution: South America: Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

surinamensis, Anableps Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1803:25, 26 [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 5; ref. 4930] Suriname. No types known. •Synonym of Anableps anableps (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Ghedotti in Reis et al. 2003:583 [ref. 27061], Huber 2019:11 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Synonym of Anableps anableps (Linnaeus 1758). Anablepidae: Anablepinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

tetrophthalmus, Anableps Bloch [M. E.] 1794:7, Pl. 361 [Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische v. 8; ref. 463] Suriname. Syntypes: ZMB 3498-3500 (2, 1, 1). Type catalog: Paepke & Seegers 1986:172 [ref. 19981], Paepke 1999:44 [ref. 24282]. On p. 5 of Bloch's Ichthyologie, v. 11 [ref. 21381]. •Synonym of Anableps anableps (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Paepke 1999:44 [ref. 24282], Ghedotti in Reis et al. 2003:583 [ref. 27061], Huber 2019:11 [ref. 36941]). Current status: Synonym of Anableps anableps (Linnaeus 1758). Anablepidae: Anablepinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.