Japigny Explained

Japigny is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sternopygidae, the glass knifefishes. The only species in the genus is Japigny kirschbaum which was described in 2011 from the Approuague, Mana and Maroni rivers in French Guiana. It reaches up to 22cm (09inches) in total length and is brownish-dusky with a pattern of dark-and-pale broad bands (a similar pattern exists in Sternopygus astrabes and Sternopygus sarae).^{[1] [2]}

Etymology

The knifefish is named in honor of Frank Kirschbaum, of the Humboldt University of Berlin. He was a specialist in gymnotiform fishes because he had spawned and bred several species in the laboratory.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Meunier, F.J., Jégu, M. & Keith, P. (2011): A new genus and species of neotropical electric fish, Japigny kirschbaum (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae), from French Guiana. Cybium, 35 (1): 47-53.
2. Torgersen . Kevin T. . Galindo-Cuervo . Aleidy M. . Reis . Roberto E. . Albert . James S. . 2023 . A new species of barred Sternopygus (Gymnotiformes: Sternopygidae) from the Orinoco River . Neotropical Ichthyology . 21 . 1 . 10.1590/1982-0224-2022-0088 . 1982-0224. free . 10923/25588 . free .
3. Web site: Order GYMNOTIFORMES (Neotropical Knifefishes) . 21 February 2022 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 22 September 2018 . 7 February 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220207065141/http://etyfish.org/gymnotiformes/ . dead .