Poole, Karen E.
Chilodontidae
Sign in to saveThe Chilodidae, or headstanders, are a small family of freshwater characiform fishes found in northern and central South America. This family is closely related to the family Anostomidae and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Chilodinae, within Anostomidae.
Species
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderSeguenziida
- FamilyChilodontidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 37
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Chilodontaidae
- Collections
- NMV, AM, MPEG, MNHN, WAM, USNM
- Recorded in
- French Polynesia, Australia, United States, Egypt, Brasil, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Philippines, Mozambique
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Characiformes
- Image
- Chilodus punctatus.jpg
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- Commons category
- Chilodontidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Chilodontidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Chilodidae
- different from
- Chilodontidae
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The Chilodidae, or headstanders, are a small family of freshwater characiform fishes found in northern and central South America. This family is closely related to the family Anostomidae and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Chilodinae, within Anostomidae.
This family was formerly referred to as "Chilodontidae". Due to issues of homonymy with two other family-rank names called "Chilodontidae", the fish family was required to change spelling to Chilodidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chilodontidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.