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Species that contain: Retropinna and retropinna [ 21 ] records

abbreviata, Retropinna McDowall [R. M.] 1965:90, Fig. [Records of the Dominion Museum (Wellington) v. 5 (no. 13); ref. 9229] Shores region of Lake Omapere, northern Auckland, New Zealand. Holotype: NMNZ P.4116. Paratypes: NMNZ P.4117 (4), P.5936 (4). Type catalog: Hardy 1990:7 [ref. 18942]. •Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848) -- (McDowall 1979:91 [ref. 7021]). Current status: Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

anisodon, Retropinna Stokell [G.] 1941:371, Fig. 1; Pls. 55 (1, 4), 55 (2), 57 [Records of the Canterbury Museum v. 4 (no. 7); ref. 13247] Mouth of Waiau River, Southland, New Zealand. Holotype: CMC F68. Paratypes: SMAG A.41:201 (1). McDowall 1994:261 [ref. 21518] corrects the type locality; but this is disputed by Patrick & Woods 1995 [ref. 21725] whose locality is given above along with remarks on types. •Valid as Stokellia anisodon (Stokell 1941) -- (McDowall 1979:109 [ref. 7021], Paulin et al. 1989:87 [ref. 24556], McDowall 1994:261 [ref. 21518], McDowall & Stewart 2015:380 [ref. 34241]). Current status: Valid as Stokellia anisodon (Stokell 1941). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Distribution: New Zealand. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

chathamensis, Retropinna Stokell [G.] 1949:206, Pl. 43 [Records of the Canterbury Museum v. 5 (no. 4); ref. 12977] Land-locked lake near Henga, Chatham Islands, off New Zealand. Holotype: CMC F67. Paratypes: (several) whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Freeman & Tunnicliffe 1997:5 [ref. 22860]. •Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848) -- (McDowall 1979:91 [ref. 7021]). Current status: Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

diversa, Retropinna Stokell [G.] 1969:380 [Records of the Canterbury Museum v. 8 (no. 4); ref. 7850] Mouth of Oreti River, Southland, New Zealand. Holotype (unique): CMC F909. Type catalog: Freeman & Tunnicliffe 1997:6 [ref. 22860]. •Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848) -- (McDowall 1979:91 [ref. 7021]). Current status: Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

elongata, Retropinna richardsonii var. Klunzinger [C. B.] 1880:413 [89] [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 80 (1. Abth.) (nos 3-4); ref. 2624] Holotype (unique): SMNS. On p. 89 of separate. Not treated by Fricke 1992 [ref. 20296]. •Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Current status: Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

lacustris, Retropinna Stokell [G.] 1943:172 [Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand v. 73 (no. 3); ref. 13153] Ohau channel, near Lake Rotorua, New Zealand. Holotype: CMC F65. Paratypes: (several) whereabouts unknown. Type catalog: Freeman & Tunnicliffe 1997:6 [ref. 22860]. •Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848) -- (McDowall 1979:91 [ref. 7021]). Current status: Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

media, Retropinna Stokell [G.] 1969:379 [Records of the Canterbury Museum v. 8 (no. 4); ref. 7850] Mouth of Selwyn River, Canterbury, New Zealand. Holotype (unique): CMC F908. Type catalog: Freeman & Tunnicliffe 1997:6 [ref. 22860]. •Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848) -- (McDowall 1979:91 [ref. 7021]). Current status: Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

obtusirostris, Retropinna Stokell [G.] 1941:367, Pl. 57 [Records of the Canterbury Museum v. 4 (no. 7); ref. 13247] Lake Henry, near lake Te Anau, Southland, New Zealand. Holotype: CMC F66. Paratypes: CMC F823 (1, ? lost). Type catalog: Freeman & Tunnicliffe 1997:6 [ref. 22860]. •Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848) -- (McDowall 1979:91 [ref. 7021]). Current status: Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

osmeroides, Retropinna Hector [J.] 1871:134, Pl. 19 (fig. 1) [Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute v. 3 (art. 21); ref. 18266] Kaduka River, New Zealand. Syntypes: whereabouts unknown. •Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848) -- (McDowall 1979:91 [ref. 7021]). Current status: Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

retropinna, Argentina Richardson [J.] 1848:121, Pl. 52 (figs. 1-3) [Ichthyology of the voyage of H. M. S. Erebus & Terror v. 2 (2); ref. 3740] Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Syntypes: AMS I.7446 (1); BMNH 1855.9.19.855-856 (?4), 1965.11.5.1-7 (7). •Valid as Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848) -- (McDowall 1979:90 [ref. 7021], Paulin et al. 1989:87 [ref. 24556], McDowall & Stewart 2015:379 [ref. 34241]). Current status: Valid as Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Distribution: New Zealand. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

retropinna, Arges Regan [C. T.] 1908:800, Pl. 48 (fig. 2) [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1907 (pt 4); ref. 14333] Jimenez, western Colombia. Syntypes: BMNH 1908.5.29.81-82 (2). Type catalog: Ferraris 2007:66 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Astroblepus retropinnus (Regan 1908) -- (Burgess 1989:449 [ref. 12860], Schaefer in Reis et al. 2003:315 [ref. 27061], Ferraris 2007:66 [ref. 29155], Ardila Rodríguez 2015:3 [ref. 34412] as retropinna, DoNascimiento et al. 2017:75 [ref. 35633]). Current status: Valid as Astroblepus retropinnus (Regan 1908). Astroblepidae. Distribution: Dagua River basin and Pacific coastal drainage, Colombia. Habitat: freshwater.

retropinna, Leptoderma Fowler [H. W.] 1943:55, Fig. 5 [Bulletin of the United States National Museum No. 100, v. 14 (pt 2); ref. 1441] Off Diuata Point, between Leyte and Mindanao, Philippines, 9°06'30"N, 125°00'20"E, Albatross station D5495, depth 976 fathoms. Holotype: USNM 99512. •Valid as Leptoderma retropinna Fowler 1943 -- (Machida in Masuda et al. 1984:43 [ref. 6441], Machida in Okamura & Kitajima 1984:137, 330 [ref. 8057] as retropinnum, Sazonov & Markle 1999:1893 [ref. 24739], Nakabo 2000:294 [ref. 25086] as retropinnum, Hutchins 2001:19 [ref. 25847] as cf. retrospinna [sic], Nakabo 2002:294 [ref. 26001] as retropinnum, Shinohara et al. 2005:403 [ref. 28370] as rectropinnum, Byrkjedal et al. 2011:49 [ref. 31301], Angulo et al. 2016:498 [ref. 34156], Senda et al. 2020:115 [ref. 37789] as cf. retropinna). Current status: Valid as Leptoderma retropinna Fowler 1943. Alepocephalidae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: marine.

retropinna, Neenchelys Smith [D. G.] & Böhlke [J. E.] 1983:80, Figs. 1-3 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 135; ref. 8278] Iran, Gulf of Oman, 26°10'N, 57°02'E, depth 55-64 meters. Holotype: ANSP 131512. Paratypes: ANSP 131513 (1), AMS I.21847-017 (1). •Questionably a synonym of Myrophis cheni Chen & Weng 1967 -- (Ho et al. 2010:24 [ref. 31218]). •Valid as Neenchelys retropinna Smith & Böhlke 1983 -- (Paxton et al. 1989:119 [ref. 12442], Smith & McCosker 1999:1668 [ref. 24715], McCosker & Chen 2000:356 [ref. 25028], McCosker in Randall & Lim 2000:586 [ref. 25122], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S95 [ref. 27377], McCosker et al. 2006:271 [ref. 29006], Zhang et al. 2010:324 [ref. 31511], Larson et al. 2013:27 [ref. 32988]). Current status: Valid as Neenchelys retropinna Smith & Böhlke 1983. Ophichthidae: Myrophinae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific. Habitat: marine.

retropinna, Poecilia Regan [C. T.] 1908:458 [Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 8) v. 2 (no. 11); ref. 3637] Boruca, Costa Rica. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1909.3.13.69. •Valid as Poeciliopsis retropinna (Regan 1908) -- (Rosen & Bailey 1963:139 [ref. 7067], Bussing 1987:150 [ref. 22927], Bussing 1998:227 [ref. 24179], Lucinda in Reis et al. 2003:571 [ref. 27061], Lucinda & Reis 2005:43 [ref. 29205], Angulo et al. 2013:997 [ref. 33194], Meyer 2015:301 [ref. 34698], Huber 2019:130 [ref. 36941], Angulo et al. 2020:6 [ref. 37425]). Current status: Valid as Poeciliopsis retropinna (Regan 1908). Poeciliidae: Poeciliinae. Distribution: Central America: Pacific slopes of Costa Rica and Panama. Habitat: freshwater.

retropinnus, Phenacogaster Lucena [Z. M. S. de] & Malabarba [L. R.] 2010:280, Fig. 10 [Zoologia (Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia) v. 27 (no. 2); ref. 30880] Rio Aripuanã, 3 kilometers abaixo da cachoeira Dardaanelos, Rio Madeira system, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Holotype: INPA 31367. Paratypes: (many) at ANSP, INPA, MCP, MZUSP. Species epithet treated as a noun. •Valid as Phenacogaster retropinnus Lucena & Malabarba 2010 -- (Antonetti et al. 2018:279 [ref. 36204] as retropinna, Souza et al. 2023:15 [ref. 40222] as retropinna). Current status: Valid as Phenacogaster retropinnus Lucena & Malabarba 2010. Characidae: Characinae. Distribution: South America: Negro, Madeira, Xingu and Tapajós-Araguaia River basins, Brazil. Habitat: freshwater.

richardsonii, Retropinna Gill [T. N.] 1862:14 [Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia v. 14; ref. 1655] Australasian seas. Syntypes: AMS I.7446 (1); BMNH 1855.9.19.855-856 (?4), 1965.11.5.1-7 (7). Unneeded new name for Argentina retropinna Richardson 1848. •Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848) -- (McDowall 1979:90 [ref. 7021]). Current status: Synonym of Retropinna retropinna (Richardson 1848). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

semoni, Prototroctes Weber [M.] 1895:274 [Fische von Ambon, Java, Thursday Island v. 5; ref. 4607] Burnett River, Queensland, Australia. Holotype (unique): ZMA 112579. Type catalog: Nijssen et al. 1982:11-12 [ref. 19236]. •Valid as Retropinna semoni (Weber 1895) -- (McDowall 1979:100 [ref. 7021], Cadwallader & Backhouse 1983:78 [ref. 25473], Paxton et al. 1989:172 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:232 [ref. 22532], McDowall 1996:92 [ref. 22909], Pusey et al. 2000:72 [ref. 24466], Unmack 2001:1060 [ref. 25797], Allen et al. 2002:92 [ref. 25930], Hammer & Walker 2004:88 [ref. 28129], Hoese et al. 2006:397 [ref. 29047], Hammer et al. 2012:63 [ref. 32389], Kuiter 2018:22 [ref. 36369]). Current status: Valid as Retropinna semoni (Weber 1895). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Distribution: Australia: Queensland and northern New South Wales. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

tasmanica, Retropinna McCulloch [A. R.] 1920:54, Pl. 11 (fig. 4) [Records of the Australian Museum v. 13; ref. 15242] Huon River, Tasmania, Australia. Holotype: AMS I.12509. Paratypes: AMS I.12510 (1), I.11356 (6), B.5805 (5). •Valid as Retropinna tasmanica McCulloch 1920 -- (McDowall 1979:106 [ref. 7021], Paxton et al. 1989:172 [ref. 12442], McDowall in McDowall 1996:95 [ref. 22909], Chilcott & Humphries 1996:145 [ref. 25528], Allen et al. 2002:93 [ref. 25930], Hoese et al. 2006:398 [ref. 29047], Raadik 2008:216 [ref. 30624], Kuiter 2018:22 [ref. 36369]). Current status: Valid as Retropinna tasmanica McCulloch 1920. Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Distribution: Tasmania, Australia. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

upokororo, Retropinna Hector [J.] 1871:134, Pl. 19 (fig. 2) [Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute v. 3 (art. 21); ref. 18266] Maitai River, Nelson, New Zealand. No types known. •Synonym of Prototroctes oxyrhynchus Günther 1870 -- (McDowall 1976:644 [ref. 7065]). Current status: Synonym of Prototroctes oxyrhynchus Günther 1870. Retropinnidae: Prototroctinae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.

victoriae, Retropinna Stokell [G.] 1941:368 [Records of the Canterbury Museum v. 4 (no. 7); ref. 13247] Victoria, Australia. Holotype: CMC F69. Paratypes: (3) CMC. Type catalog: Freeman & Tunnicliffe 1997:6 [ref. 22860]. •Synonym of Retropinna semoni (Weber 1895) -- (McDowall 1979:101 [ref. 7021], Cadwallader & Backhouse 1983:215 [ref. 25473], Paxton et al. 1989:172 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:233 [ref. 22532], Hoese et al. 2006:397 [ref. 29047]). •Valid as Retropinna victoriae Stokell 1841 -- (Kuiter 2018:22 [ref. 36369]). Current status: Valid as Retropinna victoriae Stokell 1941. Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Distribution: Australia: South Australia, Victoria and southern New South Wales. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.

weatherilli, Jenynsella Ogilby [J. D.] 1908:15 [Annals of the Queensland Museum No. 9 (pt 1); ref. 3285] Enoggera Creek, near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Holotype (unique): QM I.773. •Synonym of Retropinna semoni (Weber 1895) -- (McDowall 1979:100 [ref. 7021], Paxton et al. 1989:172 [ref. 12442], Hoese et al. 2006:397 [ref. 29047]). Current status: Synonym of Retropinna semoni (Weber 1895). Retropinnidae: Retropinninae. Habitat: freshwater, brackish.


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