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    Gymnotiformes. The Characiformes form a group known as the Characiphysi with the Siluriformes and Gymnotiformes. The order Characiformes is the sister group...
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    subfamily Serrasalminae within the tetra family, Characidae in order Characiformes. These fish inhabit South American rivers, floodplains, lakes and reservoirs...
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    and molecular phylogeny of Gymnocorymbus Eigenmann, 1908 (Teleostei, Characiformes, Characidae). Zootaxa, 3956 (1): 1–28. Innes, W. T. Exotic Aquarium...
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    freshwater fish of the characin family (family Characidae) of order Characiformes. The type species of its genus, it is native to blackwater and clearwater...
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  •   Extinct in the wild (EW): 6 species   Critically endangered (CR): 455 species   Endangered (EN): 643 species   Vulnerable (VU): 1,245 species   Near...
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    a freshwater fish of the characin family (Characidae) of the order Characiformes. It is native to the Paraguay basin of southern Brazil. They are often...
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  • crinogi is a freshwater fish in the family Characidae of the order Characiformes. It is a tropical fish. It resides in the basins of the Tocantins River...
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    (2015): Molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Stevardiinae Gill, 1858 (Characiformes: Characidae): classification and the evolution of reproductive traits...
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    Leporinus enyae (category Characiformes stubs)
    Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families TARUMANIIDAE, ERYTHRINIDAE, PARODONTIDAE, CYNODONTIDAE, SERRASALMIDAE...
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    Characidae (category Characiformes families)
    of freshwater subtropical and tropical fish belonging to the order Characiformes. The name "characins" is a historical one, but scientists today tend...
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    small freshwater fish of the characin family (Characidae) of order Characiformes. It is native to the upper Paraguay basin and upper Madeira basin (including...
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  • ariporo is a freshwater fish in the family Characidae of the order Characiformes. It is a tropical fish. It resides in the basin of the Orinoco in Colombia...
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    D.R. & Mendez, C.M.D. (2015): A new species of the genus Hoplias (Characiformes, Erythrinidae), a tararira from the lower Paraná River, in Misiones...
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    Hyphessobrycon (category Characiformes genera)
    Characiformes: Characidae) from the Rio Formiga, upper Rio Juruena basin, Mato Grosso, Brazil, with a review of sexual dichromatism in Characiformes....
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    Pygocentrus (category Characiformes stubs)
    Fink, W. 1993. Revision of the piranha genus Pygocentrus (Teleostei, Characiformes). Copeia 3:665-687. Machado-Allison, A. & W. Fink. 1996. Los peces caribes...
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    that in deep parts. By far the most diverse orders in the Amazon are Characiformes (43% of total fish species in the Amazon) and Siluriformes (39%), but...
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    Astyanax (fish) (category Characiformes genera)
    is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae of the order Characiformes. Some of these fish, like many of their relatives, are kept as aquarium...
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  • Leporinus britskii (category Characiformes stubs)
    new anostomid species from the Tapajós and Jari drainages, Brazil (Characiformes: Anostomidae). Zootaxa, 3120: 55–62. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds...
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    taxonomic journey from the Mammalia to the Anostomidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes). Neotropical Ichthyology, 10 (3): 555–560. Britski, H.A. & Birindelli...
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    (Paracheirodon simulans) is a freshwater fish of the family Characidae of order Characiformes. It is native to the upper Orinoco and Negro Rivers in South America...
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    Salminus (category Characiformes stubs)
    new species from the rio São Francisco basin, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae) Neotrop. Ichthyol. 5(3). Géry, J. and L. Lauzanne (1990)...
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  •   Extinct in the wild (EW): 6 species   Critically endangered (CR): 455 species   Endangered (EN): 643 species   Vulnerable (VU): 1,245 species   Near...
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    1846) and Hoplias macrophthalmus (Pellegrin, 1907) (Ostariophysi, Characiformes, Erythrinidae)". Copeia. 2006 (3): 516–528. doi:10...
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    documented is the bigmouth buffalo. Their closest living relatives are the Characiformes (characins, tetras and their kin), the Gymnotiformes (electric eel and...
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    Metynnis lippincottianus (category Characiformes stubs)
    Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families TARUMANIIDAE, ERYTHRINIDAE, PARODONTIDAE, CYNODONTIDAE, SERRASALMIDAE...
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    (barbs, carp, danios, goldfishes, loaches, minnows, rasboras) Order Characiformes Goodrich 1909 (characins, pencilfishes, hatchetfishes, piranhas, tetras...
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  • freshwater fish in the serrasalmid family (family Serrasalmidae) of order Characiformes. It is native to the Amazon River basin in South America. Like other...
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  • (Prochilodontidae, Characiformes). Kritskyia salmini Cepeda, Ceccarelli & Luque, 2011 a parasite of the urinary bladder of Salminus brasiliensis (Characiformes). Kohn...
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    Troschel (Characiformes: Characidae). Zootaxa, 4222 (1): 1–189. Angulo, A. & Gracian-Negrete, J.M. (2013): A new species of Brycon (Characiformes: Characidae)...
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    (Paracheirodon axelrodi) is a freshwater fish of the family Characidae of order Characiformes. It is native to the upper Orinoco and Negro Rivers in South America...
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