Scorpiodoras
Genus of fishes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scorpiodoras is a genus of thorny catfishes native to tropical South America.
| Scorpiodoras | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Doradidae |
| Subfamily: | Astrodoradinae |
| Genus: | Scorpiodoras C. H. Eigenmann, 1925 |
| Type species | |
| Scorpiodoras heckelii Kner, 1855 | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Autanadoras Fernández-Yépez, 1950 | |
Species
There are currently three described species in this genus:[1]
- Scorpiodoras bolivarensis (Fernández-Yépez, 1968)
- Scorpiodoras heckelii (Kner, 1855)
- Scorpiodoras liophysus Sousa & Birindelli, 2011
