Hypomasticus
| Hypomasticus | |
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| Hypomasticus granti | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Anostomidae |
| Subfamily: | Leporininae |
| Genus: | Borodin, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Leporinus mormyrops Steindachner, 1875[1]
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Hypomasticus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Anostomidae, the toothed headstanders. These fishes are found in South America.
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Hypomasticus arcus (C. H. Eigenmann, 1912)
- Hypomasticus copelandii (Steindachner, 1875)
- Hypomasticus despaxi (Puyo, 1943)
- Hypomasticus gomesi (Garavello & Santos, 1981)
- Hypomasticus granti (C. H. Eigenmann, 1912)
- Hypomasticus lebaili (Géry & Planquette, 1983)
- Hypomasticus lineomaculatus Birindelli, Peixoto, Wosiacki & Britski, 2013
- Hypomasticus megalepis (Günther, 1863)
- Hypomasticus melanostictus (Norman 1926)
- Hypomasticus mormyrops (Steindachner, 1875)
- Hypomasticus nijsseni (Garavello, 1990)
- Hypomasticus santanai Birindelli & Melo, 2020
- Hypomasticus santosi (Britski & Birindelli, 2013)
- Hypomasticus steindachneri (C. H. Eigenmann, 1907)
- Hypomasticus tepui (Birindelli, Britski & Provenzano, 2019)
- Hypomasticus thayeri (Borodin, 1929)
- Hypomasticus torrenticola (Birindelli, Teixeira & Britski, 2016)
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Leporininae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 July 2025.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Hypomasticus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 July 2025.