Bryconidae
| Bryconidae Temporal range:
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| Two large bryconids in Bonito: Salminus brasiliensis (foreground) and Brycon hilarii (background) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| (unranked): | Otophysi |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Suborder: | Characoidei |
| Family: | Bryconidae C. H. Eigenmann, 1912[1] |
| Type genus | |
| Brycon[1] | |
| Subfamilies | |
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Bryconidae, also known as bryconids, is a family of freshwater fishes belonging to the order Characiformes. They are native to South America.[3] Some species reach particularly large sizes for characins, with Salminus franciscanus being one of the largest characiforms overall.[4]
Genera:[5]
- Family Bryconidae Eigenmann, 1912
- Subfamily Bryconinae Eigenmann, 1912
- Genus Brycon Müller & Troschel, 1844
- Genus Chilobrycon Géry & de Rham, 1981
- Genus Henochilus Garman, 1890
- Subfamily Salmininae Cockerell, 1915
- Subfamily Bryconinae Eigenmann, 1912
The earliest known fossil member of this group is †Brycon avus (Woodward, 1898) from the Oligocene-aged Tremembé Formation of Brazil.[6][7] A slightly older potential specimen of B. avus is also known from the Late Eocene/Early Oligocene of the Aiuruoca Basin.[8]
The following cladogram based on a 2014 maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree of Bryconidae.[9] It recovers the consensus that Brycon is not monophyletic as the genus encompasses multiple lineages:[10]
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The most recent common ancestor of Bryconidae is thought to have originated in Northwestern South America.[10]
References
- ^ a b Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 1–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Bryconidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ^ "Bryconidae". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 17 June 2021.
- ^ Lima, Flávio C. T.; Britski, Heraldo A. (2007). "Salminus franciscanus, a new species from the rio São Francisco basin, Brazil (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae)". Neotropical Ichthyology. 5 (3): 237–244. Bibcode:2007NeoIc...5..237L. doi:10.1590/S1679-62252007000300001. ISSN 1679-6225.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Bryconidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
- ^ Abe, Kelly T.; Mariguela, Tatiane C.; Avelino, Gleisy S.; Foresti, Fausto; Oliveira, Claudio (2014-07-08). "Systematic and historical biogeography of the Bryconidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes) suggesting a new rearrangement of its genera and an old origin of Mesoamerican ichthyofauna". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14 (1): 152. Bibcode:2014BMCEE..14..152A. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-152. ISSN 1471-2148. PMC 4109779. PMID 25005252.
- ^ Malabarba, Maria Cláudia S. L. (1998). "Phylogeny of Fossil Characiformes and Paleobiogeography of the Tremembé Formation, São Paulo, Brazil.". Phylogeny and Classification of Neotropical Fishes. Part 1 - Fossils and Geological Evidence. pp. 69–84.
- ^ Malabarba, María Claudia de S. L. (2004). "On the paleoichthyofauna from the Aiuruoca Tertiary Basin, Minas Gerais State, Brazil". Ameghiniana (in Spanish). 41 (4): 515–519. ISSN 1851-8044.
- ^ Abe, Kelly T.; Mariguela, Tatiane C.; Avelino, Gleisy S.; Foresti, Fausto; Oliveira, Claudio (8 July 2014). "Systematic and historical biogeography of the Bryconidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes) suggesting a new rearrangement of its genera and an old origin of Mesoamerican ichthyofauna". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14 (152) 152. Bibcode:2014BMCEE..14..152A. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-152. PMC 4109779. PMID 25005252.
- ^ a b Márquez, Edna Judith; Gómez-Chavarría, Daniel Alfredo; Alzate, Juan Fernando (August 27, 2024). "Exploring the mitochondrial genomes and phylogenetic relationships of trans-Andean Bryconidae species (Actinopterygii: Ostariophysi: Characiformes)". PLOS ONE. 19 (8) e0300830. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0300830. PMC 11349099. PMID 39190628.