Chilodontidae (fishes)

Chilodontidae (fishes)
Chilodontidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Superfamily: Anostomoidea
Family: Chilodontidae
Genera

Caenotropus
Chilodus
This article is about the vertebrate family of ray-finned fishes. For the gastropod family, see Chilodontidae (gastropods).

The Chilodontidae, or headstanders, are a small family of freshwater characiform fishes found in South America. This family is closely related to Anostomidae and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Chilodontinae, within the Anostomidae family.

Chilodontids have colourful markings, making them popular in aquariums. They are small fish, all less than 7 centimetres (2.8 in) in adult length, and are distinguished by their habitual head-down postures.[1]

Species

There are 8 species in two genera:[2]

  • Genus Caenotropus Günther, 1864.
    • Caenotropus labyrinthicus (Kner, 1858).
    • Caenotropus maculosus (Eigenmann, 1912).
    • Caenotropus mestomorgmatos Vari, Castro and Raredon, 1995.
    • Caenotropus schizodon Scharcansky & de Lucena, 2007.
  • Genus Chilodus Müller and Troschel, 1844.
    • Chilodus fritillus Vari and Ortega, 1997.
    • Chilodus gracilis Isbrücker and Nijssen, 1988.
    • Chilodus punctatus Müller and Troschel, 1844.
    • Chilodus zunevei Puyo, 1946.

References

  1. ^ Weitzman, S.H. & Vari R.P. (1998). Paxton, J.R. & Eschmeyer, W.N.. ed. Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 104. ISBN 0-12-547665-5. 
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2008). "Chliodontidae" in FishBase. December 2008 version.


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