Global InformationLebiasina information
| Lebiasina | |
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| Lebiasina sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Lebiasinidae |
| Subfamily: | Lebiasininae |
| Genus: | Lebiasina Valenciennes, 1847 |
| Type species | |
| Lebiasina bimaculata Valenciennes, 1847
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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.[1][2][3] The individual species tend to have relatively small ranges and the three species of Serra do Cachimbo, all restricted to the Curuá River basin,[3] are considered threatened by Brazil's Ministry of the Environment.[4]
They are elongated fish that reach up to 16 cm (6.3 in) in standard length.[1]
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Lebiasina in FishBase. April 2013 version.
- ^ Netto-Ferreira, A.L., Lopez-Fernandez, H., Taphorn, D.C. & Liverpool, E.A. (2013): New species of Lebiasina (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Lebiasinidae) from the upper Mazaruni River drainage, Guyana. Zootaxa, 3652 (5): 562–568.
- ^ a b Netto-Ferreira, A.L. (2012): Three new species of Lebiasina (Characiformes: Lebiasinidae) from the Brazilian Shield border at Serra do Cachimbo, Pará, Brazil. Neotropical Ichthyology, 10 (3): 487-498.
- ^ ICMBio (Ministry of the Environment, Brazil): Portaria MMA nº 445, de 17 de dezembro de 2014. Lista de Especies Ameaçadas - Saiba Mais. Retrieved 1 December 2018.