Bryconidae
Family of fishes
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Bryconidae, also known as bryconids, is a family of freshwater fishes belonging to the order Characiformes. They are native to South America.[3] Some species reach particularly large sizes for characins, with Salminus franciscanus being one of the largest characiforms overall.[4]
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| Two large bryconids in Bonito: Salminus brasiliensis (foreground) and Brycon hilarii (background) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| (unranked): | Otophysi |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Suborder: | Characoidei |
| Family: | Bryconidae C. H. Eigenmann, 1912[1] |
| Type genus | |
| Brycon[1] | |
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Genera:[5]
- Family Bryconidae Eigenmann, 1912
- Subfamily Bryconinae Eigenmann, 1912
- Genus Brycon Müller & Troschel, 1844
- Genus Chilobrycon Géry & de Rham, 1981
- Genus Henochilus Garman, 1890
- Subfamily Salmininae Cockerell, 1915
- Subfamily Bryconinae Eigenmann, 1912
The earliest known fossil member of this group is †Brycon avus (Woodward, 1898) from the Oligocene-aged Tremembé Formation of Brazil.[6][7] A slightly older potential specimen of B. avus is also known from the Late Eocene/Early Oligocene of the Aiuruoca Basin.[8]
The following cladogram based on a 2014 maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree of Bryconidae.[9] It recovers the consensus that Brycon is not monophyletic as the genus encompasses multiple lineages:[10]
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The most recent common ancestor of Bryconidae is thought to have originated in Northwestern South America.[10]
