Characiformes

Translingual

Etymology

Charax +‎ -iformes

Proper noun

Characiformes

1. A taxonomic order within the class Teleostei – now consisting of small freshwater fish, including tetras and piranhas, native to South and Central America.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Osteichthyes – superclass; Actinopterygii – superclass; Actinopteri – class; Neopterygii – subclass; Teleostei – infraclass; Ostariophysi – superorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Acestrorhynchidae (smallscale pike characins), Alestidae (African tetras), Anostomidae, Bryconidae (bryconids), Chalceidae, Characidae, Chilodontidae, Citharinidae (lutefishes), Crenuchidae (South American darters), Ctenoluciidae (pike-characins), Curimatidae (toothless characins), Cynodontidae (dogtooth tetras), Distichodontidae, Erythrinidae, Gasteropelecidae, Hemiodontidae, Hepsetidae, Iguanodectidae, Lebiasinidae, Parodontidae, Prochilodontidae (flannel-mouth characiforms), Serrasalmidae (piranas), Triportheidae – families

References

• Characiformes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Characiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Characiformes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Characiformes at World Register of Marine Species
• Characiformes at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Characiformes at the Tree of Life Web Project
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI