Rhoadsia
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| Rhoadsia | |
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| Rhoadsia altipinna | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Acestrorhamphidae |
| Subfamily: | Rhoadsiinae |
| Genus: | Rhoadsia Fowler, 1911[1] |
| Type species | |
| Rhoadsia altipinna Fowler, 1911[1] | |
Rhoadsia is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins.[1] The fishes in this genus are endemic to river basins in western Ecuador and Peru.[2] The name of this genus honours Samuel Nicholson Rhoads,[3] the owner of the Franklin Book Shop at 920 Walnut St., Philadelphia[4] and a naturalist in Philadelphia who collected the holotype of the type species of the genus, R. altipinna.[3]
