Bario (fish)

Bario
Bario steindachneri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Acestrorhamphidae
Subfamily:	Thayeriinae
Genus:	Bario Myers, 1940 [1]
Type species
Tetragonopterus steindachneri C. H. Eigenmann, 1893 [1]
Synonyms [1]
EntomolepisC. H. Eigenmann, 1893 (Preoccupied)

Bario is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. ^[1] The glass tetra and redeye tetra, which are commonly kept in aquaria, are members of this genus. Most of the species, except the formerly monotypic type species, were formerly classified in Moenkhausia .

Species

Bario contains the following valid species: ^[2]

• Bario australe C. H. Eigenmann, 1908
• Bario cosmops F. C. T. Lima, Britski & Machado, 2007
• Bario diktyotus F. C. T. Lima & Toledo-Piza, 2001
• Bario forestii Benine, Mariguela & C. de Oliveira, 2009
• Bario lineomaculatus D'Agosta, Marinho & Benine, 2015
• Bario oligolepis (Günther, 1864) (Glass tetra)
• Bario sanctaefilomenae (Steindachner, 1907) (Redeye tetra)
• Bario skolioplatus (Bertaco & Carvalho, 2005)
• Bario steindachneri (C. H. Eigenmann, 1893)
• Bario uirapuru Ohara & F. C. T. Lima, 2015

References

1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Family-Thayeriinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 30 October 2025.
2. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bario". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 9 October 2025.