Ecology
Associations
I cannot see the thumbnails well (system problem), but all identified as Prochilodus or Semaprochilodus are members of the Prochilodontidae rather than Curimatidae
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I cannot see the thumbnails well (system problem), but all identified as Prochilodus or Semaprochilodus are members of the Prochilodontidae rather than Curimatidae
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Photo is not a member of the Curimatidae, but rather a species of the Prochilodontidae, proabaly Prochilodus lineatus
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Photo is not a member of the Curimatidae, but rather a species of the Prochilodontidae, proabaly Prochilodus lineatus
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Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage
| Specimen Records: | 158 | Public Records: | 29 |
| Specimens with Sequences: | 131 | Public Species: | 7 |
| Specimens with Barcodes: | 128 | Public BINs: | 8 |
| Species: | 24 | ||
| Species With Barcodes: | 23 | ||
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Barcode data
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Locations of barcode samples
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Wikipedia
Curimatidae
Curimatidae is a family of freshwater fishes, known as the toothless characins of the order Characiformes. They originate from southern Costa Rica to northern Argentina. The family has around 95 species, many of them frequently exploited for human consumption. They are closely related to the Prochilodontidae.
This family lacks jaw teeth, although they do sometimes have small teeth on the pharyngeal plates. They are eat films of slime coating underwater surfaces, which consist largely of algae, with some fungi and microscopic animals.[1]
Classification
The family has eight genera and around a hundred species:[2]
Family Curimatidae
- Curimata (13 species)
- Curimatella (5 species)
- Curimatopsis (5 species)
- Cyphocharax (36 species)
- Potamorhina (5 species)
- Psectogaster (8 species)
- Pseudocurimata (6 species)
- Steindachnerina (23 species)
See also
References
- ^ Weitzman, S.H. & Vari, R.P. (1998). Paxton, J.R. & Eschmeyer, W.N.. ed. Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). "Curimatidae" in FishBase. October 2011 version.
- Nelson, Joseph S. (2006). Fishes of the World. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-25031-7
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