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Taxon: Order Characiformes Goodrich, 1909 (fish)
Classification by:

Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
Count: [pp] 39p;20c;125o;1189f;24g;2s; †1p;6c;36o;209f;10g;5s
   Phylum Craniata Linnaeus, 1758 see Subphylum Vertebrata Cuvier, 1812
  Count: -
     Pisces
    Count: [*] 6c;62o;533f
       Class Actinopterygii Woodward, 1891 - ray-finned fishes
      Count: [*] 45o;476f
         Order Characiformes Goodrich, 1909 - characins
        Count: [*] 19f
           01 Family Citharinidae
          Count: -
           02 Family Distichodontidae
          Count: -
           03 Family Alestidae Hoedeman, 1951
          Count: -
           04 Family Hepsetidae
          Count: -
           05 Family Hemiodontidae
          Count: -
           06 Family Parodontidae
          Count: -
           07 Family Curimatidae
          Count: -
           08 Family Prochilodontidae
          Count: -
           09 Family Anostomidae
          Count: -
           10 Family Chilodontidae Eigenmann, 1903
          Count: -
           11 Family Erythrinidae - trahiras
          Count: -
           12 Family Lebiasinidae
          Count: -
           13 Family Gasteropelecidae - freshwater hatchetfishes
          Count: -
           14 Family Ctenoluciidae - pike-characids
          Count: -
           15 Family Acestrorhynchidae
          Count: -
           16 Family Cynodontidae
          Count: -
           17 Family Serrasalmidae Günther, 1864 see Subfamily Serrasalminae
          Count: -
           18 Family Characidae - characins
          Count: -
           19 Family Crenuchidae
          Count: -

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