| Pseudorestias | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Cyprinodontiformes |
| Family: | Cyprinodontidae |
| Genus: | Pseudorestias Arratia, Vila, Lam, Guerrero & Quezada-Romegialli, 2017 |
| Species: | P. lirimensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudorestias lirimensis Arratia, Vila, Lam, Guerrero & Quezada-Romegialli, 2017 | |
Pseudorestias is a monospecific genus in the family Cyprinodontidae, the pupfishes.[1] The only species in the genus is Pseudorestias lirimensis which was described in 2017. from a type locality given as "Charvinto Creek near to the thermal pond Baños San Andrés about 6 km E of Lirima village, Chancacolla River, Tarapacá Region, northern Chile". It was also found in the Chancacolla River.[2]
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pseudorestias lirimensis". FishBase. August 2019 version.
- Gloria Arratia; Irma Vila; Natalia Lam; Claudia Jimena Guerrero & Claudio Quezada-Romegialli (2017). "Morphological and taxonomic descriptions of a new genus and species of killifishes (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) from the high Andes of northern Chile". PLOS ONE. 12 (8) e0181989. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1281989A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181989. PMC 5549709. PMID 28792510.