Aphyodite

Genus of fishes

Aphyodite

Aphyodite grammica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Characiformes
Family:  | Characidae
Subfamily:  | Aphyoditeinae
Genus:  | Aphyodite
C. H. Eigenmann, 1912

Aphyodite is a genus of characin in the family Characidae. It contains three species. It was originally described as a monotypic genus containing only Aphyodite grammica, which is endemic to the Essequibo River basin in Guyana; however, two more species were described in 2017: Aphyodite apiaka from the Solimões river basin and Aphyodite tupebas from the Madeira river basin.[1]

## Species

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There are currently three described species in Aphyodite:[1]

* Aphyodite apiaka Esguícero & Castro, 2017
* Aphyodite grammica C. H. Eigenmann, 1912
* Aphyodite tupebas Esguícero & Castro, 2017

## References

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* Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Aphyodite grammica". FishBase. October 2011 version.

1. ^ a b Esguícero, André L. H.; Castro, Ricardo M. C. (2017-12-04). "Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Aphyodite, with Description of Two New Species (Teleostei: Characidae)". Copeia. 105 (4): 753–764\. doi:10.1643/ci-16-481. ISSN 0045-8511. S2CID 90208698.

Taxon identifiers

Aphyodite|

* Wikidata: Q2858280
* CoL: YKC
* EoL: 28067
* GBIF: 2353677
* iNaturalist: 86538
* IRMNG: 1006123
* ITIS: 639251
* NCBI: 930294
* Open Tree of Life: 99483
* WoRMS: 268340

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