Pristella

Pristella
Pristella maxillaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Acestrorhamphidae
Subfamily: Pristellinae
Genus: Pristella
C. H. Eigenmann, 1908
Type species
Holopristes riddlei
Meek, 1907
Species

3, see text

Pristella is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging the family Acestrorhamphidae, the American characins. It was formerly a monotypic taxon only containing Pristella maxillaris, but in 2019 a second species, Pristella ariporo, was described.

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