Roestes
Appearance
Roestes | |
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Roestes molossus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Characiformes |
Family: | Acestrorhynchidae |
Subfamily: | Roestinae |
Genus: | Roestes Günther, 1864 |
Roestes is a genus of biting tetra from tropical South America, where found in the Amazon Basin and various rivers in the Guianas. There are three described species in this genus.[1]
Species
[edit]- Roestes itupiranga Menezes & C. A. S. de Lucena, 1998
- Roestes molossus (Kner, 1858)
- Roestes ogilviei (Fowler, 1914)
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Roestes". FishBase. October 2011 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Acestrorhynchidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 April 2025.