After Albert & Crampton, 2005, with Recent species from Froese & Pauly, 2001 [“The Fishbase”] and Loureiro & Silva, 2006
<==o Hypopomidae [N: 4/12] [FB: 6/15] |-- Hypopomus artedi (Kaup, 1856) Gill, 1864 `--+--o Brachyhypopomus Mago-Leccia, 1994 (Bluntnose knifefishes) [FB: 6] [A&C: 7+12!] | |-- B. beebei (Schultz, 1944) | |-- B. bombilla Loureiro & Silva, 2006 | |-- B. brevirostris (Steindachner, 1868) (Bluntnose knifefish) | |-- B. diazi (Fernández-Yépez, 1972) | |-- B. janeiroensis (Costa & Campos-da-Paz, 1992) | |-- B. jureiae Triques & Khamis, 2003 | |-- B. occidentalis (Regan, 1914) | |-- B. pinnicaudatus (Hopkins, 1991) | `== + 11 undescribed species (Albert & Crapton, 2005) |--+-- Racenisia fimbriipinna Mago-Leccia, 1994 | `-- Microsternarchus bilineatus Fernández-Yépez, 1968 `--+--o Hypopygus Hoedeman, 1962 | |-- H. sp. [Albert & Crampton, 2005] | |-- H. lepturus Hoedeman, 1962 | `-- H. neblinae Mago-Leccia, 1994 `--+-- Stegostenopos cryptogenes Triques, 1997 `--o Steatogenys Boulenger, 1898 |-- S. duidae (La Monte, 1929) |-- S. elegans (Steindachner, 1880) (Barred knifefish) |-- S. ocellatus `?- S. mirabilis Steindachner, 1878 [not recognized by Albert & Crampton]
Reference(s):
- Albert, J. S. & Crampton, W. G. R., 2005: Diversity and phylogeny of Neotropical electric fishes (Gymnotiformes). (360-409)
in Bullock, T. C., Hopkins, C. D., Popper, A. N., & Fay, R. R., (eds.), 2005: Electroreception.
–Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 2005, - Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds), 2001: FishBase.
–iNet: www.fishbase.org - Loureiro, M. & Silva, A., 2006: A new species of Brachyhypopomus (Gymnotiformes, Hypopomidae) from northeast Uruguay.
–Copeia: Vol. 2006 (106), #4, pp. 665-673