Moenkhausia

Moenkhausia
Moenkhausia lepidura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Acestrorhamphidae
Subfamily: Stichonodontinae
Genus: Moenkhausia
C. H. Eigenmann, 1903
Type species
Tetragonopterus xinguensis
Synonyms

Gymnotichthys Fernández-Yépez, 1950

Moenkhausia is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. They are found in tropical and subtropical South America and are medium-sized tetras, where the largest species only reach around 12 cm (4.7 in).

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