''Gilbertolus'' is a genus of
biting tetra
Acestrorhynchidae is a family of freshwater fish in the order Characiformes, found in South America. Members of this family are known as freshwater barracudas (not to be confused with the unrelated true barracudas of the Sphyraenidae) and bitin ...
from northwestern
South America
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, restricted to the
Atrato,
Magdalena and
Maracaibo
Maracaibo ( , ; ) is a city and municipality in northwestern Venezuela, on the western shore of the strait that connects Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela. It is the largest city in Venezuela and is List of cities in Venezuela by population ...
basins.
Species
There are currently three described species in this genus.
* ''
Gilbertolus alatus''
(Steindachner
Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner descri ...
, 1878)
* ''
Gilbertolus atratoensis''
L. P. Schultz, 1943
* ''
Gilbertolus maracaiboensis''
L. P. Schultz, 1943
References
Acestrorhynchidae
Freshwater fish of Colombia
Freshwater fish of Venezuela
Magdalena River
Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann
Fish described in 1907
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