Characidium stigmosum Melo & Buckup, 2002
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Characidium stigmosum Melo & Buckup, 2002
- Name authority
- Melo & Buckup, 2002
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Characiformes
- Family
- Crenuchidae
- Genus
- Characidium
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderCharaciformes
- suborderCharacoidei
- familyCrenuchidae Günther, 1864
- subfamilyCharacidiinae Fowler, 1932
- genusCharacidium Reinhardt, 1867
- speciesCharacidium stigmosum Melo & Buckup, 2002
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Characidium. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Characidium mirim Netto-Ferraira, Birindelli & Buckup, 2013 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium amaila Lujan, Agudelo-Zamora, Taphorn, Booth & López-Fernández, 2013 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium barbosai Flausino Junior, Lima, Machado & Melo, 2020 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium chancoense Agudelo-Zamora, Ortega-Lara & Taphorn, 2020 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium chicoi da Graça, Ota & Domingues, 2019 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium cricarense Malanski, Sarmento-Soares, Silva-Malanski, Lopes, Ingenito & Buckup, 2019 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium dule Agudelo-Zamora, Tavera, Murillo & Ortega-Lara, 2020 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium pumarinri Teixeira & Melo, 2020 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium nambiquara Zanata & Ohara, 2020 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium onca Melo, Brito Ribeiro & Lima, 2021 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium duplicatum Armbruster, Lujan & Bloom, 2021 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Characidium kalunga Melo, Bouquerel, Masumoto, França & Netto-Ferreira, 2021 | CrenuchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Melo, M. R. S., & Buckup, P. A. (2002). Characidium stigmosum (Characiformes: Crenuchidae): a new species of characidiin fish from central Brazil. Copeia, 4: 988–993. https://doi.org/10.1643/0045-8511(2002)002[0988:csccan]2.0.co;2 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:TMRL. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.