Parodon

Genus of fishes

Parodon

illustration of Parodon guyanensis, a species of this genus of fishes
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Characiformes
Family:  | Parodontidae
Genus:  | Parodon
Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1850

Parodon is a genus of scrapetooths from South America, which can be found as far south as Río de la Plata.

## Species[edit]

There are currently 14 recognized species in this genus:[1]

* Parodon alfonsoi Londoño-Burbano, Román-Valencia & Taphorn, 2011[2]
* Parodon apolinari G. S. Myers, 1930
* Parodon atratoensis Londoño-Burbano, Román-Valencia & Taphorn, 2011[2]
* Parodon bifasciatus C. H. Eigenmann, 1912
* Parodon buckleyi Boulenger, 1887
* Parodon caliensis Boulenger, 1895
* Parodon carrikeri Fowler, 1940
* Parodon guyanensis Géry, 1959
* Parodon hilarii J. T. Reinhardt, 1867
* Parodon magdalenensis Londoño-Burbano, Román-Valencia & Taphorn, 2011[2]
* Parodon moreirai Ingenito & Buckup, 2005
* Parodon nasus Kner, 1859
* Parodon pongoensis (W. R. Allen, 1942) (Pongo characin)
* Parodon suborbitalis Valenciennes, 1850

## References[edit]

1. ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Parodon in FishBase. October 2012 version.
2. ^ a b c Londoño-Burbano, A., Román-Valencia, C. & Taphorn, D.C. (2011): Taxonomic review of Colombian Parodon (Characiformes: Parodontidae), with descriptions of three new species. Neotropical Ichthyology, 9 (4): 709-730.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q7139379
* ADW: Parodon
* BOLD: 85778
* CoL: 6HZY
* EoL: 24290
* GBIF: 2354786
* iNaturalist: 90855
* IRMNG: 1369571
* ITIS: 163202
* NCBI: 304074
* uBio: 117142
* WoRMS: 270303

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