Chilodidae
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The Chilodidae, or headstanders, are a small family of freshwater characiform fishes found in northern and central South America. This family is closely related to the family Anostomidae and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Chilodinae, within Anostomidae.
This family was formerly referred to as "Chilodontidae". Due to issues of homonymy with two other family-rank names called "Chilodontidae", the fish family was required to change spelling to Chilodidae.[1]
Chilodids have colourful markings, making them popular in aquariums. They are small fish, all less than Script error: No such module "convert". in adult length, and are distinguished by their habitual head-down postures.[2]
Genera
This family currently contains two genera:[3]
- Genus Caenotropus Günther, 1864 (4 species)
- Genus Chilodus Müller & Troschel, 1844 (4 species)
References
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- ↑ Opinion 2502 (Case 3555) – Chilodontidae Bronn, 1859 (Ciliophora), Chilodontinae Eigenmann, 1910 (Pisces, Characiformes) and Chilodontinae Wenz, 1938 (Mollusca, Gastropoda): homonymy between family-group names resolved. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 81(1): 133-136 (31 December 2024) doi:10.21805/bzn.v81.a025
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