Parodon

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Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Characiformes
Family:Parodontidae
Parodon
illustration of Parodon guyanensis, a species of this genus of fishes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Parodontidae
Genus: Parodon
Valenciennes, 1850[1]
Type species
Parodon suborbitale
Valenciennes, 1850[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Centrophorus Kner, 1859
  • Nematoparodon Fowler, 1943

Parodon is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Parodontidae, the scrapetooths. The fishes in this genus are from the tropical and subtropical Neotropics, their distribution extending as far south as the Río de la Plata.

Parodon was first proposed as a genus in 1850 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes in volume 22 of his and Georges Cuvier's Histoire naturelle des poissons. Valenciennes proposed it as a monospecific genus with Parodon suborbitalis as its only species, this species being the type species by monotypy.[1] P. suborbitale was first formally described, as Parodon suborbitale, by Valenciennes in the same volume as he proposed the genus and its type locality was given as Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela.[2] Parodon is the type genus of the family Parodontidae, the scrapetooths, which is classified within the suborder Characoidei of the order Characiformes.[3]

Etymology

Parodon is a combination of par, which means "even", and odon, which is a Latinised derivative of the Greek oudos, meaning "teeth". This is a reference to the cusps of the teeth of the type species all being even.[4]

Species

Parodon contains the following valid species:[2]

Characteristics

Distribution

References

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