Lebiasina
Lebiasina is a genus of fishes found in tropical South America, where they inhabit well-oxygenated upland streams that originate in the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, the Guianan Highlands in Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela, and Serra do Cachimbo in Brazil. The individual species tend to have relatively small ranges and the three species of Serra do Cachimbo, all restricted to the Curuá River basin, are considered threatened by Brazil's Ministry of the Environment.
They are elongated fish that reach up to in standard length.Species
There are eighteen currently recognized species:
- Lebiasina ardilai Netto-Ferreira, López-Fernández, Taphorn & Liverpool, 2013
- Lebiasina astrigata
- Lebiasina bimaculata Valenciennes, 1847
- Lebiasina chocoensis Ardila Rodríguez, 2010
- Lebiasina chucuriensis Ardila Rodríguez, 2001
- Lebiasina colombia Ardila Rodríguez, 2008
- Lebiasina floridablancaensis Ardila Rodríguez, 1994
- Lebiasina intermedia Meinken, 1936
- Lebiasina marilynae Netto-Ferreira, 2012
- Lebiasina melanoguttata Netto-Ferreira, 2012
- Lebiasina minuta Netto-Ferreira, 2012
- Lebiasina multimaculata Boulenger, 1911
- Lebiasina narinensis Ardila Rodríguez, 2002
- Lebiasina ortegai Ardila Rodríguez, 2008
- Lebiasina provenzanoi Ardila Rodríguez, 1999
- Lebiasina taphorni Ardila Rodríguez, 2004
- Lebiasina uruyensis Fernández-Yépez, 1967
- Lebiasina yepezi Netto-Ferreira, Oyakawa, Zuanon & Nolasco, 2011
- Lebiasina yuruaniensis Ardila Rodríguez, 2000
