Characiformes
Translingual edit
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Etymology edit
Proper noun edit
Characiformes
- A taxonomic order within the class Teleostei – now consisting of small freshwater fish, including tetras and piranhas, native to South and Central America.
Hypernyms edit
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Actinopterygii – superclass; Teleostei – class; Ostariophysi - superorder
Hyponyms edit
- (order): Acestrorhynchidae (smallscale pike characins), Alestidae (African tetras), Anostomidae, Bryconidae (bryconids), Chalceidae, Characidae, Chilodontidae, Citharinidae (lutefishes), Crenuchidae (South American darters), Ctenoluciidae (pike-characins), Curimatidae (toothless characins), Cynodontidae (dogtooth tetras), Distichodontidae, Erythrinidae, Gasteropelecidae, Hemiodontidae, Hepsetidae, Iguanodectidae, Lebiasinidae, Parodontidae, Prochilodontidae (flannel-mouth characiforms), Serrasalmidae (piranas), Triportheidae - families
References edit
Characiformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Characiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Characiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Characiformes at World Register of Marine Species
- Characiformes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Characiformes at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Characiformes at Encyclopedia of Life
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248
