Psalidodon Explained

Psalidodon is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Characidae of the order Characiformes. Some of these fish, like many of their relatives, are kept as aquarium pets and known collectively as tetras.

They are all endemic to freshwater habitats in South America, where they are locally called Mojarra or Lambari.

Taxonomy and systematics

This genus was resurrected from synonymy with Astyanax in 2020.^[1]

Species

These are the recognized species in this genus:^[2]

Further reading

• Kavalco, Karine Frehner, Rubens Pazza, and Lurdes Foresti de Almeida-Toledo. "Astyanax bockmanni Vari and Castro, 2007: an ambiguous karyotype in the Astyanax genus." Genetica 136.1 (2009): 135–139.

Notes and References

1. Guillermo E. Terán. Mauricio F. Benitez. J. Marcos Mirande. Opening the Trojan horse: phylogeny of Astyanax, two new genera and resurrection of Psalidodon (Teleostei: Characidae). 2020. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 190. 4. 1217–1234. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa019.
2. Bailly, Nicolas. 2015. Psalidodon Eigenmann, 1911. 270548. 23 December 2023.