Bryconinae
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Brycon hilarii |
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| Eigenmann , 1912 |
The Bryconinae are a subfamily of the order of the characiformes . The fish live from southern Mexico to Argentina .
features
They are large fish with a trout-like appearance. The largest species are 70 centimeters long. The Bryconinae are characterized by two or more rows of teeth on the intermaxillary bone , a toothless wing bone and two rows of teeth in the lower jaw.
Systematics
There are three genera of which two, Chilobrycon and Henochilus , each contain only one species .
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Bryconinae
- Brycon Müller & Troschel, 1844
- Chilobrycon Géry & de Rham, 1981
- Henochilus Garman, 1890
Web links
Commons : Bryconinae - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Bryconinae on Fishbase.org (English)
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- Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .
- Günther Sterba : The world's freshwater fish. 2nd Edition. Urania, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-332-00109-4 .
- Axel Zarske: Bryconinae. In: Claus Schaefer, Torsten Schröer (Hrsg.): The large lexicon of aquaristics. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8001-7497-9 , p. 176.