Megalamphodus
Genus of fishes
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Megalamphodus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American tetras. The fishes in this genus are found in the Neotropics. Many prominent ornamental tetras belong to this genus.
| Megalamphodus | |
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| Red phantom tetra (M. sweglesi) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Acestrorhamphidae |
| Subfamily: | Megalamphodinae |
| Genus: | Megalamphodus C. H. Eigenmann, 1915[1] |
| Type species | |
| Megalamphodus megalopterus C. H. Eigenmann, 1915 | |
| Species | |
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Although recognized as a distinct genus early on, it was later synonymized with Hyphessobrycon. More recent studies have resurrected this genus, and have found that it belongs to a different subfamily of the Acestrorhamphidae than Hyphessobrycon.[2]
Taxonomy
Megalamphodus contains the following valid species:[3]
- Megalamphodus bentosi (Durbin, 1908) (Ornate tetra)
- Megalamphodus copelandi (Durbin, 1908) (Black heart tetra)
- Megalamphodus epicharis (S. H. Weitzman & L. F. Palmer, 1997) (Crystalline rosy tetra)
- Megalamphodus eques (Steindachner, 1882) (Jewel tetra)
- Megalamphodus erythrostigma (Fowler, 1943) (Bleeding-heart tetra)
- Megalamphodus haraldschultzi (Travassos, 1960) (Crystal red tetra)
- Megalamphodus khardinae (Zarske, 2008)
- Megalamphodus megalopterus C. H. Eigenmann, 1915 (Black-phantom tetra)
- Megalamphodus micropterus C. H. Eigenmann, 1915
- Megalamphodus rosaceus (Durbin, 1909) (Rosy tetra)
- Megalamphodus socolofi (S. H. Weitzman, 1977) (Spot-fin tetra)
- Megalamphodus sweglesi Géry, 1961 (Red-phantom tetra)