Triportheidae
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Triportheidae, the hatchet characins, is a family of characiform fishes, including about 23 species. This family was raised from the status of a subfamily to family based on extensive analysis of characiform species.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCharaciformes
- FamilyTriportheidae
Habitatfreshwater
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Triportheidae, the hatchet characins, is a family of characiform fishes, including about 23 species. This family was raised from the status of a subfamily to family based on extensive analysis of characiform species.
Fossils of this group date back to the Oligocene, with the fossil species †Lignobrycon ligniticus (Woodward, 1898) from Brazil.
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