Parodon
Sign in to saveParodon is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Parodontidae, the scrapetooths. The fishes in this genus are from the tropical and subtropical Neotropics, their distribution extending as far south as the Río de la Plata.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderCharaciformes
- FamilyParodontidae
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- Specimen records
- 147
- Family
- Parodontidae
- Collections
- TCWC, CUMV, CAS, AUM, USNM, KU
- Recorded in
- Peru, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil
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- Parodontidae
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Parodon is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Parodontidae, the scrapetooths. The fishes in this genus are from the tropical and subtropical Neotropics, their distribution extending as far south as the Río de la Plata.
==Taxonomy== Parodon was first proposed as a genus in 1850 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes in volume 22 of his and Georges Cuvier's Histoire naturelle des poissons. Valenciennes proposed it as a monospecific genus with Parodon suborbitalis as its only species, this species being the type species by monotypy. P. suborbitale was first formally described, as Parodon suborbitale, by Valenciennes in the same volume as he proposed the genus and its type locality was given as Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. Parodon is the type genus of the family Parodontidae, the scrapetooths, which is classified within the suborder Characoidei of the order Characiformes.
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