Bucktooth tetra
| Bucktooth tetra | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Characidae |
| Subfamily: | Exodontinae |
| Genus: | Exodon J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1844 |
| Species: | E. paradoxus
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| Binomial name | |
| Exodon paradoxus J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1844
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The bucktooth tetra (Exodon paradoxus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a characin, belonging to the family Characidae. This fish is found in South America. It is the only species in the monospecific genus Exodon. The bucktooth tetra occasionally turns up in the aquarium trade.