Characiformes

== Translingual == === Etymology === Charax +‎ -iformes === Proper noun === Characiformes 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