Breitling tetra
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The Breitling tetra (Curimatidae) are a family of Central and South American freshwater fish. Their distribution area extends from southern Costa Rica to northern Argentina , a little south of Buenos Aires . They also occur west of the Andes from the Río Atrato in northwestern Colombia to northwestern Peru . Most of the species live in the river basins of the Amazon and Orinoco .
features
Breitling tetra are 4 to 32 centimeters long. Your body can be fusiform or high-backed and flattened on the sides. In contrast to almost all other tetra species , the Curimatidae lack all of their jaw teeth. The only second group of tetras without teeth is the genus Anodus from the family of club tetra (Hemiodontidae).
ecology
Breitling tetra are very common and form a large proportion of the fish population in many rivers. Therefore they are important for the nutrition of predatory fish and other fish-eating animals and are also fished by humans. Breitling tetra feed on organic coatings, algae and detritus . Some species migrate to their spawning grounds in large schools.
Genera and species
- Genus Curimata ( Bosc , 1817)
- Genus Curimatella (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889)
- Genus Curimatopsis ( Steindachner , 1876)
- Curimatopsis crypticus
- Curimatopsis evelynae
- Curimatopsis guaporensis Melo & Oliveira, 2017
- Curimatopsis jaci Melo & Oliveira, 2017
- Curimatopsis macrolepis
- Curimatopsis microlepis
- Curimatopsis myersi
- Curimatopsis pallida Melo & Oliveira, 2017
- Genus Cyphocharax ( Fowler , 1906)
- Cyphocharax abramoides
- Cyphocharax albula Lütken, 1875
- Cyphocharax aninha
- Cyphocharax boiadeiro Melo, 2017
- Cyphocharax corumbae
- Cyphocharax festivus
- Cyphocharax gangamon
- Cyphocharax gilbert
- Cyphocharax gillii
- Cyphocharax gouldingi
- Cyphocharax helleri
- Cyphocharax jagunco Dutra et al., 2016
- Cyphocharax laticlavius
- Cyphocharax leucostictus
- Cyphocharax magdalenae
- Cyphocharax meniscaprorus
- Cyphocharax mestomyllon
- Cyphocharax microcephalus
- Cyphocharax modestus
- Cyphocharax multilineatus
- Cyphocharax nagelii
- Cyphocharax nigripinnis
- Cyphocharax notatus
- Cyphocharax oenas
- Cyphocharax pantostictos
- Cyphocharax platanus
- Cyphocharax plumbeus
- Cyphocharax punctatus
- Cyphocharax saladensis
- Cyphocharax santacatarinae
- Cyphocharax sanctigabrielis Melo & Vari, 2014
- Cyphocharax signatus
- Cyphocharax spilotus
- Cyphocharax spiluropsis
- Cyphocharax spilurus
- Cyphocharax stilbolepis
- Cyphocharax vanderi
- Cyphocharax vexillapinnus
- Cyphocharax voga
- Genus Potamorhina ( Cope , 1878)
- Genus Psectrogaster (Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889)
- Genus Pseudocurimata (Fernández-Yépez, 1948)
- Genus Steindachnerina (Fowler, 1906)
- Steindachnerina amazonica
- Steindachnerina argentea
- Stone rooferina atratoensis
- Steindachnerina bimaculata
- Steindachnerina binotata
- Stone roof nerina biornata
- Stone roof nina brevipinna
- Steindachnerina conspersa
- Stone roof nina dobula
- Steindachnerina elegans
- Stone roof nina fasciata
- Stone roof nina gracilis
- Steindachnerina guentheri
- Steindachnerina hypostoma
- Stone roof nina insculpta
- Stone roof nina leucisca
- Stone roof nina notonota
- Steindachnerina planiventris
- Stone rooferina pupula
- Stone roof nina quasimodoi
- Steindachnerina steindachneri
- Stone roof nina varii
literature
- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. 4th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ et al. 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
Web links
- Breitling tetra on Fishbase.org (English)