Poole, Karen E.
Tetragonopterus
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Tetragonopterus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Characidae. This fishes in this genus are found in South America.
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Vinony's link graph records 14 inbound references to Tetragonopterus, and connects out to Peru, Animalia and Chordata.
It sits within the topics Characidae, Characiformes genera and Fish of South America.
Vinony links it to 14 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCharaciformes
- FamilyCharacidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 386
- With media
- 33
- Family
- Characidae
- Collections
- USNM, NHMUK, AUM, CAS
- Recorded in
- Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Suriname, Mexico, Bolivia, Paraguay, Venezuela
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Characidae
- Image
- Tetragonopterus rufipes.jpg
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- genus
- taxon name
- Tetragonopterus
- Commons category
- Tetragonopterus
- topic's main category
- Category:Tetragonopterus
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Tetragonopterus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Characidae. This fishes in this genus are found in South America.
It is the only genus in the subfamily Tetragonopterinae. The subfamily was originally much larger as previously defined, and contained many of the genera known as "tetras". The name "tetra" derives from this former classification.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tetragonopterus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.