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Aspius

Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae

Taxonomy
Aspius was named by Agassiz (1832). It is extant.

It was assigned to Cyprinidae by Sauvage (1873) and Woodward (1901).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1832Aspius Agassiz p. 132
1873Aspius Sauvage p. 187
1901Aspius Woodward p. 318

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
superclassActinopterygii()
classActinopteri()
subclassNeopterygii(Regan 1923)
RankNameAuthor
Teleosteomorpha
Teleostei(Müller 1846)
Osteoglossocephalai
ClupeocephalaPatterson and Rosen 1977
Otomorpha
Ostariophysi(Jordan and Evermann 1896)
Otophysa
superorderCyprinae
orderCypriniformesBleeker 1859
familyCyprinidaeRafinesque 1815
genusAspius

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Aspius Agassiz 1832
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Aspius brongniarti Agassiz 1835
Aspius ecnomi Sauvage 1870
Aspius gracilis Agassiz 1835
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Environment: freshwatero
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: omnivoreo
Created: 2009-07-20 20:40:14
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:32:02
Source: o = order, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Messinian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 7.24600 to 0.12600 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Italy A. encomi (185692)
Middle Pleistocene0.781 - 0.126Hungary (Budapest) A. aspius (35474)