Psalidodon
Genus of fishes
Psalidodon 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 pets and known collectively as tetras.
| Psalidodon | |
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| Psalidodon paranae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Characidae |
| Subfamily: | Stethaprioninae |
| Genus: | Psalidodon Eigenmann, 1911 |
| Synonyms | |
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Astyanax | |
They are all endemic to freshwater habitats in South America, where they are locally called Mojarra or Lambari.
Taxonomy and systematics
This genus was resurrected from synonymy with Astyanax in 2020.[1]
Species
These are the recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Psalidodon leonidas (Eigenmann, 1907)
- (Casciotta & Almirón, 2004) (Azpelicueta, Casciotta & Almirón, 2002)
- Psalidodon marionae (Eigenmann, 1911)
- Psalidodon ojiara Psalidodon correntinus
- (Azpelicueta & Garcia, 2000) Psalidodon pampa
- (Casciotta, Almirón & Azpelicueta, 2005) Psalidodon parahybae
- (Holmberg, 1891) (Eigenmann, 1908)
- Psalidodon paranae (Eigenmann, 1914)
- Psalidodon pellegrini Psalidodon dissensus
- (Eigenmann, 1907) Psalidodon powelli
- (Terán, Butí & Mirande, 2017) Psalidodon bifasciatus
- [[(Lucena & Thofehrn, 2013)[3]|(Lucena & Thofehrn, 2013)[3]]] (Mirande, Aguilera & Azpelicueta, 2007)
- Psalidodon pynandi (Casciotta, Almirón, Bechara, Roux & Ruíz Díaz, 2003)
- Psalidodon rioparanaibanus Psalidodon eigenmanniorum
- Alves, Oliveira, Pasa & Kavalco, 2020 Psalidodon rivularis
- (Lütken, 1875) Psalidodon rutilus
- (Cope, 1894) (Jenyns, 1842)
- Psalidodon schubarti (Britski, 1964)
- Psalidodon troya Psalidodon endy
- (Azpelicueta, Casciotta & Almirón, 2002) Psalidodon tumbayaensis
- (Miquelarena & Menni, 2005) Psalidodon anisitsi
- (Garavello & Sampaio, 2010) (Mirande, Aguilera & Azpelicueta, 2006)
- (Garutti & Venere, 2009) Psalidodon xiru
- [[(Lucena, Castro & Bertaco, 2013)[3]|(Lucena, Castro & Bertaco, 2013)[3]]] Psalidodon erythropterus
- (Holmberg, 1891) Psalidodon fasciatus
- Psalidodon bockmanni (Cuvier, 1819)
- Psalidodon gymnodontus Eigenmann, 1911
- Psalidodon gymnogenys (Vari & Castro, 2007)
- (Eigenmann, 1911) Psalidodon hermosus
- (Miquelarena, Protogino & López, 2005) Psalidodon ita
- Psalidodon chico (Almirón, Azpelicueta & Casciotta, 2002)
- Psalidodon jequitinhonhae (Steindachner, 1877)
- Psalidodon xavante Psalidodon puka
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References
- ^ Guillermo E. Terán; Mauricio F. Benitez; J. Marcos Mirande (2020). "Opening the Trojan horse: phylogeny of Astyanax, two new genera and resurrection of Psalidodon (Teleostei: Characidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 190 (4): 1217–1234. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa019.
- ^ Bailly, Nicolas (2015). "Psalidodon Eigenmann, 1911". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ 3.0 3.1 Lucena CA, Castro JB, Bertaco VA (2013). "Three new species of Astyanax from drainages of southern Brazil (Characiformes: Characidae)". Neotropical Ichthyology. 11 (3): 537–552. doi:10.1590/s1679-62252013000300007.
Further reading
- Kavalco, Karine Frehner, Rubens Pazza, and Lurdes Foresti de Almeida-Toledo. "Astyanax bockmanni Vari and Castro, 2007: an ambiguous karyotype in the Astyanax genus." Genetica 136.1 (2009): 135–139.Error: "Q24132016" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.