Psalidodon
Genus of fishes
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Psalidodon is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Ancestrorhamphidae, the American characins. Some of these fish, like many of their relatives, are kept as aquarium pets and known collectively as tetras.
| Psalidodon | |
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| Psalidodon paranae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Acestrorhamphidae |
| Subfamily: | Acestrorhamphinae |
| Genus: | Psalidodon C. H. Eigenmann, 1911[1] |
| Type species | |
| Psalidodon gymnodontus C. H. Eigenmann, 1911[1] | |
They are all endemic to freshwater habitats in South America, where they are locally called Mojarra or Lambari.
Taxonomy and systematics
Species
These are the recognized species in this genus:[3][4]
- Psalidodon alleni (C. H. Eigenmann & McAtee, 1907)
- Psalidodon anisitsi (C. H. Eigenmann, 1907)
- Psalidodon argentum (Salgado, 2021)
- Psalidodon balbus (Myers, 1927)
- Psalidodon bifasciatus (Garavello & Sampaio, 2010)
- Psalidodon biotae (Castro & Vari, 2004)
- Psalidodon bockmanni (Vari & Castro, 2007)
- Psalidodon brachypterygium (Bertaco & Malabarba, 2001)
- Psalidodon chico (Casciotta & Almirón, 2004)
- Psalidodon correntinus (Holmberg, 1891)
- Psalidodon cremnobates (Bertaco & Malabarba, 2001)
- Psalidodon crenuchoides (Zarske & Géry, 1999)
- Psalidodon dissensus (Lucena & Thofehrn, 2013)[5]
- Psalidodon dissimilis (Garavello & Sampaio, 2010)
- Psalidodon eigenmanniorum (Cope, 1894)
- Psalidodon endy (Mirande, Aguilera & Azpelicueta, 2006)
- Psalidodon erythropterus (Holmberg, 1891)
- Psalidodon fasciatus (Cuvier, 1819)
- Psalidodon goyanensis (P. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1944)
- Psalidodon gymnodontus C. H. Eigenmann, 1911
- Psalidodon gymnogenys (C. H. Eigenmann, 1911)
- Psalidodon hamatus (Bertaco & Malabarba, 2005)
- Psalidodon henseli (de Melo & Buckup, 2006)
- Psalidodon hermosus (Miquelarena, Protogino & H. L. López, 2005)
- Psalidodon ita (Almirón, Azpelicueta & Casciotta, 2002)
- Psalidodon jequitinhonhae (Steindachner, 1877)
- Psalidodon kalunga (Bertaco & Carvalho, 2010)
- Psalidodon langeanii (F. C. T. Lima & Moreira, 2003)
- Psalidodon laticeps (Cope, 1894)
- Psalidodon leonidas (Azpelicueta, Casciotta & Almirón, 2002)
- Psalidodon marionae (C. H. Eigenmann, 1911)
- Psalidodon minor (Garavello & Sampaio, 2010)
- Psalidodon ojiara (Azpelicueta & Garcia, 2000)
- Psalidodon pampa (Casciotta, Almirón & Azpelicueta, 2005)
- Psalidodon parahybae (C. H. Eigenmann, 1908)
- Psalidodon paranae (C. H. Eigenmann, 1914)
- Psalidodon pellegrini (C. H. Eigenmann, 1907)
- Psalidodon pessalii Teixeira, Salvador, Mirande & F. C. T. Lima, 2025
- Psalidodon powelli (Terán, Butí & Mirande, 2017)
- Psalidodon puka (Mirande, Aguilera & Azpelicueta, 2007)
- Psalidodon pynandi (Casciotta, Almirón, Bechara, Roux & Ruíz Díaz, 2003)
- Psalidodon rioparanaibanus Alves, I. H. R. Oliveira, Pasa & Kavalco, 2020
- Psalidodon rivularis (Lütken, 1875)
- Psalidodon rutilus (Jenyns, 1842)
- Psalidodon saguazu (Casciotta, Almirón & Azpelicueta, 2003)
- Psalidodon scabripinnis (Jenyns, 1842)
- Psalidodon schubarti (Britski, 1964)
- Psalidodon serratus (Garavello & Sampaio, 2010)
- Psalidodon togoi (Miquelarena & H. L. López, 2006)
- Psalidodon troya (Azpelicueta, Casciotta & Almirón, 2002)
- Psalidodon tumbayaensis (Miquelarena & Menni, 2005)
- Psalidodon uaiso (Carvalho & Langeani, 2013)
- Psalidodon uberaba Serra & Langeani, 2015
- Psalidodon varzeae (Abilhoa & Duboc, 2007)
- Psalidodon vermilion (Zanata & Camelier, 2009)
- Psalidodon xavante (Garutti & Venere, 2009)
- Psalidodon xiru (Lucena, J. B. Castro & Bertaco, 2013)[5]
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