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Hemiodontidae
The Hemidontidae are a small family of freshwater characins found in northern South America, south to the Paraná-Paraguay Basin. The larger species are popular food fish.
5 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 34 known species
Hemiodus
genusHemiodus
Bivibranchia
genusBivibranchia
Anodus
genusAnodus
Argonectes
genusArgonectes
Micromischodus
genusMicromischodus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 85817.