Dinotopterygium

Dinotopterygium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Acestrorhamphidae
Subfamily: Hyphessobryconinae
Genus: Dinotopterygium
Frainer, Carvalho, Bertaco & Malabarba, 2021[1]
Type species
Dinotopterygium uniodon
Frainer, Carvalho, Bertaco & Malabarba, 2021[2]
Species

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Dinotopterygium is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins.[1] The fishes in this genus were described in 2021 from specimens held in museums. The type localities of both species were in Goias in the Rio Paranã drainage.[2]

Species

Dinotopterygium contains the following valid species:[3]

  • Dinotopterygium diodon Frainer, Carvalho, Bertaco & Malabarba, 2021
  • Dinotopterygium uniodon Frainer, Carvalho, Bertaco & Malabarba, 2021

References

  1. ^ a b Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Hyphessobryconinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 October 2025.
  2. ^ a b Frainer, G.; Carvalho, F. R.; Bertaco, V. A. & Malabarba, L. R. (2021). "Museum specimens reveal a rare new characid fish genus, helping to refine the interrelationships of the Probolodini (Characidae: Stethaprioninae)". Systematics and Biodiversity. 19 (8): 1135–1148. doi:10.1080/14772000.2021.1986167.(subscription required)
  3. ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Dinotopterygium". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 October 2025.