ANNOTATED LIST OF THE SPECIES 305 
Genus 168: LEPORINUS Spix 
Leporinus Spix, 1829, Sel. Gen. et Spec. Pise. Bras., 58; 
Eigenmann and Eigenmann, 1891, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., XIV, 5 
Eigenmann, 1910, Rept. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patagonia, III, 4 
Eigenmann, 1912, Mem. Carnegie Mus., V, 299. 
Abramites Fowler, 1906 (1907), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LVIII, 331. 
9. 
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26; 
Type: Leporinus novemfasciatus Agassiz 
All eastern slope streams Rio Magdalena to La Plata 
Separable by the moderately to greatly reduced dimensions of the head, which 
is cone-shaped; mouth minute with teeth reduced to not more than six in each jaw, 
and directed obliquely forward toward the middle; teeth lobed or truncate; nares 
widely separated. 
These and related fishes known as lisa. 
414. LeporiInus FRIDERICI (Bloch) 
Salmo friderici Bloch, 1795, Ausl. Fische, VIII, 78, pl. 378; 
Bloch and Schneider, 1801, Syst. Ichth., 401. 
Leporinus friderict Miller and Troschel, 1845, Horae Ichth., I, 11; 
Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1849, Hist. Nat. Poiss., X XII, 25; 
Eigenmann, 1910, Rept. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patagonia, III, 426; 
Eigenmann, 1912, Mem. Carnegie Mus., V, 302, pl. xliii, fig. 4; 
Borodin, 1929, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., L, 275, Brazilian waters; 
Fowler, 1939 (1940), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., XCI, 261, one, 178 mm., Contamana, 
Morrow collection. 
Leporinus frederict Cope, 1870, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., XI, 566, Pebas, Hauxwell collection; 
Cope, 1878, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., XVII, 690, Marafion, Orton coll.; 
Pellegrin, 1899, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat., V, 406; 
Fowler, 1906 (1907), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., LVIII, 328. 
Leporinus megalepis (in part) Giinther, 1868, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 244, one, 6 inches, Xeberos, 
Bartlett collection. 
Curimatus acutidens Valenciennes, 1847, in D’Orb. Voy. Amér. Merid., Poiss., 9, pl. viii, fig. 1. 
Guianas and Venezuela to Peru and La Plata basin 
415. LeEPORINUS BIMACULATUS Castelnau 
Leporinus bimaculatus Castelnau, 1855, Anim. Amér. Sud, Poiss., 58; 
Eigenmann, 1910, Rept. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patagonia, III, 426. 
Leporinus frederict (in part) Cope, 1878, Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc., XVII, 690, Rio Maranon; 
Steindachner, (in part), 1875, Sitzb. KKK. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LX XI, 223, Tabatinga. 
Peruvian and Brazilian Amazons 
416. LeporInus srriatus Kner 
Leporinus striatus Kner, 1859, Denksch. KIX. Akad. Wiss. Wien, XVII, 171; 
Boulenger, 1887, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 280; 
Eigenmann, 1910, Rept. Princeton Univ. Exped. Patagonia, III, 426. 
Magdalena to Peruvian Amazon and Rio Paraguay 
