The Hemiodontidae are a small family of freshwater characins found in northern South America, south to the Paraná-Paraguay Basin. The larger species are popular food fish.[1]
Hemiodontids have a streamlined body shape; many are fast-swimming, and are able to leap out of the water to escape predators. The adults of all species except Micromischodus sugillatus have no teeth on their lower jaws. Most species have a round spot on the side of the midbody and a stripe along the lower lobe of the caudal fin. The largest hemiodontids are around 50 cm (20 in) in length.[1]
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The family has around 29 known species,[2] as well as several undescribed species, in five genera:
hemiodontidae, small, family, freshwater, characins, found, northern, south, america, south, paraná, paraguay, basin, larger, species, popular, food, fish, hemiodus, gracilis, scientific, classification, domain, eukaryota, kingdom, animalia, phylum, chordata, . The Hemiodontidae are a small family of freshwater characins found in northern South America south to the Parana Paraguay Basin The larger species are popular food fish 1 Hemiodontidae Hemiodus gracilis Scientific classification Domain Eukaryota Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Actinopterygii Order Characiformes Suborder Characoidei Family Hemiodontidae Hemiodontids have a streamlined body shape many are fast swimming and are able to leap out of the water to escape predators The adults of all species except Micromischodus sugillatus have no teeth on their lower jaws Most species have a round spot on the side of the midbody and a stripe along the lower lobe of the caudal fin The largest hemiodontids are around 50 cm 20 in in length 1 Genera editThe family has around 29 known species 2 as well as several undescribed species in five genera Anodus Argonectes Bivibranchia Hemiodus MicromischodusReferences edit a b Weitzman S H Vari R P 1998 Paxton J R Eschmeyer W N eds Encyclopedia of Fishes San Diego Academic Press p 104 ISBN 0 12 547665 5 Froese Rainer and Daniel Pauly eds 2011 Hemiodontidae in FishBase October 2011 version Nelson Joseph S 2006 Fishes of the World John Wiley amp Sons Inc ISBN 0 471 25031 7 nbsp This Characiformes related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hemiodontidae amp oldid 1181776081, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
