Priocharax

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Priocharax
Priocharax conwayi.jpg
Priocharax conwayi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Acestrorhamphidae
Subfamily: Tyttobryconinae
Genus: Priocharax
S. H. Weitzman & Vari, 1987
Type species
Priocharax pygmaeus
Species

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Priocharax is a genus of characins, very small freshwater fish from the Amazon and Orinoco basins in tropical South America. [1] [2]

Species

There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus: [3] [4]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Priocharax". FishBase . August 2019 version.
  2. Stanley H. Weitzman; Richard P. Vari (1987). "Two new species and a new genus of miniature Characid Fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) from Northern South America". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 100: 640–652.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Priocharax". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 31 August 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 George M.T. Mattox; Flávio C. T. Lima; Ralf Britz; Camila S. Souza; Claudio Oliveira (12 September 2024). "Two new miniature species of the fish genus Priocharax from the Rio Tapajós and Amazonas drainages, Pará, Brazil (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae)". Vertebrate Zoology. 74: 533–550. doi: 10.3897/vz.74.e130038 .
  5. Toledo-Piza, M.; Mattox, G.M.T.; Britz, R. (2014). "Priocharax nanus, a new miniature Characid from the Rio Negro, Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Characiformes), with an updated list of miniature Neotropical freshwater fishes". Neotropical Ichthyology. 12 (2): 229–246. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20130171.