Tyttobrycon
| Tyttobrycon | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Characidae |
| Subfamily: | Aphyoditeinae |
| Genus: | Tyttobrycon Géry, 1973 |
| Type species | |
| Tyttobrycon xeruini Géry, 1973
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Tyttobrycon is a genus of characins native to the Amazon Basin in South America.[1]
Species
There are currently six recognized species:[1][2]
- Tyttobrycon dorsimaculatus Géry, 1973
- Tyttobrycon hamatus Géry, 1973
- Tyttobrycon marajoara Marinho, Bastos & Menezes, 2013[2]
- Tyttobrycon shibattai Abrahão, Pastana & Marinho, 2019[3]
- Tyttobrycon spinosus Géry, 1973
- Tyttobrycon xeruini Géry, 1973
References
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Tyttobrycon". FishBase. October 2013 version.
- ^ a b Marinho, M.M.F., Bastos, D.A. & Menezes, N.A. (2013): New species of miniature fish from Marajó Island, Pará, Brazil, with comments on its relationships (Characiformes: Characidae). Archived 2013-12-26 at the Wayback Machine Neotropical Ichthyology, 11 (4): 739-746.
- ^ Abrahão, Vitor Pimenta; Pastana, Murilo; Marinho, Manoela (2019-12-18). "On a remarkable sexual dimorphic trait in the Characiformes related to the olfactory organ and description of a new miniature species of Tyttobrycon Géry (Characiformes: Characidae)". PLOS ONE. 14 (12): e0226130. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1426130A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0226130. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6919584. PMID 31851726.