Erythrinus

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Erythrinus
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Erythrinus erythrinus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Erythrinidae
Genus: Erythrinus
Scopoli, 1777 [1]
Type species
Synodus erythrinus
Bloch & Schneider, 1801 [1]
Species

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Synonyms [1]

Erythrinus is a genus of relatively small trahiras, freshwater fish from tropical South America. [2]

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus, [2] but a possibly undescribed species is known from the lower Paraná basin and Iguazu basin. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Eythrinidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 21 June 2025.
  2. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Erythrinus". FishBase . February 2017 version.
  3. ↑ Casciotta, Almirón, Ciotek, Giorgis, Říčan, Piálek, Dragová, Croci, Montes Iwaszkiw, and Puentes (2016). Visibilizando lo invisible. Un relevamiento de la diversidad de peces del Parque Nacional Iguazú, Misiones, Argentina. Historia Natural, Tercera Serie, 6(2): 5—77.


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