Priocharax
| Priocharax | |
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| Priocharax conwayi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Acestrorhamphidae |
| Subfamily: | Tyttobryconinae |
| Genus: | Priocharax S. H. Weitzman & Vari, 1987[1] |
| Type species | |
| Priocharax ariel S. H. Weitzman & Vari, 1987[1]
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| Species | |
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Priocharax is a genus of very small freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins.[1] The fishes in this genus are found in the Amazon and Orinoco basins in tropical South America.[2][3]
Species
There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus:[4][5]
- Priocharax ariel S. H. Weitzman & Vari, 1987
- Priocharax britzi Mattox, Souza, Toledo-Piza & Oliveira, 2021
- Priocharax conwayi Mattox, F. C. T. Lima, Britz, Souza & Oliveira, 2024[5]
- Priocharax marupiara Mattox, Britz, Souza, Casas, F. C. T. Lima & Oliveira, 2023
- Priocharax nanus Toledo-Piza, Mattox & Britz, 2014[6]
- Priocharax phasma Mattox, F. C. T. Lima, Britz, Souza & Oliveira, 2024[5]
- Priocharax piagassu Silva Lopez, Souza, Reia, Mantuaneli, Morales, F. C. T. Lima, Oliveira & Mattox, 2025[7]
- Priocharax pygmaeus S. H. Weitzman & Vari, 1987
- Priocharax rex Mattox, Acosta-Santos, Bogotá-Gregory, Agudelo, F. C. T. Lima, 2025
- Priocharax robbiei Silva Lopez, Souza, Reia, Mantuaneli, Morales, F. C. T. Lima, Oliveira & Mattox, 2025
- Priocharax toledopizae Mattox, Britz, Souza, Casas, F. C. T. Lima & Oliveira, 2023
- Priocharax varii Mattox, Souza, Toledo-Piza, Britz & Oliveira, 2020
References
- ^ a b c Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Tyttobryconinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Priocharax". FishBase. August 2019 version.
- ^ Stanley H. Weitzman; Richard P. Vari (1987). "Two new species and a new genus of miniature Characid Fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) from Northern South America". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 100: 640–652.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Priocharax". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
- ^ a b c George M.T. Mattox; Flávio C. T. Lima; Ralf Britz; Camila S. Souza; Claudio Oliveira (12 September 2024). "Two new miniature species of the fish genus Priocharax from the Rio Tapajós and Amazonas drainages, Pará, Brazil (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae)". Vertebrate Zoology. 74: 533–550. doi:10.3897/vz.74.e130038.
- ^ Toledo-Piza, M.; Mattox, G.M.T.; Britz, R. (2014). "Priocharax nanus, a new miniature Characid from the Rio Negro, Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Characiformes), with an updated list of miniature Neotropical freshwater fishes". Neotropical Ichthyology. 12 (2): 229–246. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20130171.
- ^ Giovanna Guimarães Silva Lopez, Camila Silva Souza, Lais Reia, Larissa Arruda Mantuaneli, Bruno Ferezim Morales, Flávio Cesar Thadeo Lima, Claudio Oliveira & George Mendes Taliaferro Mattox (2025). Two New Species of Miniature Tetras of the Genus Priocharax (Teleostei: Characiformes: Acestrorhamphidae) from the Rio Purus and Solimões Drainages, Amazonas, Brazil. Taxonomy 5(3): 36. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy5030036