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Flannel-mouth Characins
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Flannel-mouth Characins

Prochilodontidae

The Prochilodontidae, or flannel-mouthed characins, are a small family of fishes found primarily in the northern half of South America, south to Paraguay and northern Argentina. This family is closely related to the Curimatidae, and in the past they were included in Characidae.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 21 known species

Prochilodus

genusProchilodus

Semaprochilodus

genusSemaprochilodus

Ichthyoelephas

genusIchthyoelephas

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 62620.