Dinotopterygium
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| Dinotopterygium | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Acestrorhamphidae |
| Subfamily: | Hyphessobryconinae |
| Genus: | Dinotopterygium Frainer, Carvalho, Bertaco & Malabarba, 2021[1] |
| Type species | |
| Dinotopterygium uniodon Frainer, Carvalho, Bertaco & Malabarba, 2021[2] | |
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Dinotopterygium is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins.[1] The fishes in this genus were described in 2021 from specimens held in museums. The type localities of both species were in Goias in the Rio Paranã drainage.[2]