Apareiodon

Apareiodon is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Parodontidae, the scrapetooths. The fishes in this genus are found in the Neotropics, where they occur as far south as Río de la Plata.

==Taxonomy== Apareiodon was first proposed as a genus by the American ichthyologist Carl H. Eigenamnn in Volume 10 of the Annals of Carnegie Museum, published in 1916. When he proposed the genus, Eigenmann designated Parodon piracicabae as its type species. P. piracicabae was first formally described by Eigenmann in An annotated list of characin fishes in the United States National Museum and the Museum of Indiana University, with descriptions of new species, cowritten with Fletcher Ogle in volume 33 of Proceedings of the United States National Museum, published in 1907, with its type locality given as Piracicaba on the Piracicaba River in Estado de São Paulo, Brazil. Apareiodon is classified within the family Parodontidae, the scrapetooths, within the suborder Characoidei of the order Characiformes.