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Aphyocharacinae
Aphyocharacinae is a subfamily of freshwater ray-finned fishes, characins, belonging to the family Characidae. The fishes in this suf=bfamily are reffered to as glass characins. The fishes included in this subfamily are found in South America, mainly in the basins of the {{Amazon River|Amazon]] and Orinoco Rivers but with some sepcies extending to the west of tha Andes and others as far south as the Paraguay River. The taxa within this subfamily have a apomorphy of...
9 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 25 known species
Aphyocharax
genusAphyocharax
Prionobrama
genusPrionobrama
Paragoniates
genusParagoniates
Phenagoniates
genusPhenagoniates
Cyanogaster
genusCyanogaster
Leptagoniates
genusLeptagoniates
Xenagoniates
genusXenagoniates
Aphyocharacidium
genusAphyocharacidium
Amazonichthys
genusAmazonichthys
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 788643.