Characiformes
Translingual
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Etymology
Charax + -iformes
Proper noun
Characiformes
- A taxonomic order within the class Teleostei – now consisting of small freshwater fish, including tetras and piranhas, native to South and Central America.
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata - subphylum; Gnathostomata - infraphylum; Actinopterygii - superclass; Teleostei - class; Ostariophysi - superorder
Hyponyms
- (order): Acestrorhynchidae (smallscale pike characins), Alestidae (African tetras), Anostomidae, Bryconidae (bryconids), Chalceidae, Characidae, Chilodontidae, Citharinidae (lutefishes), Crenuchidae (South American darters), Ctenoluciidae (pike-characins), Curimatidae (toothless characins), Cynodontidae (dogtooth tetras), Distichodontidae, Erythrinidae, Gasteropelecidae, Hemiodontidae, Hepsetidae, Iguanodectidae, Lebiasinidae, Parodontidae, Prochilodontidae (flannel-mouth characiforms), Serrasalmidae (piranas), Triportheidae - families
References
Characiformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Characiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Characiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Characiformes at World Register of Marine Species
- Characiformes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Characiformes at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Characiformes at Encyclopedia of Life
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521