Bryconidae, also known as bryconids, is a family of freshwater

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es belonging to the order

Characiformes Characiformes is an order of ray-finned fish, comprising the characins and their allies. Grouped in 18 recognized families, more than 2000 different species are described, including the well-known piranha and tetras.; Buckup P.A.: "Relationsh ...

. They are native to South America. Some species reach particularly large sizes for characins, with '' Salminus franciscanus'' being one of the largest characiforms overall. Genera: * Family Bryconidae Eigenmann, 1912 ** Subfamily Bryconinae Eigenmann, 1912 *** Genus '' Brycon''

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& Troschel, 1844 *** Genus '' Chilobrycon''

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& de Rham, 1981 *** Genus '' Henochilus''

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, 1890 ** Subfamily Salmininae Cockerell, 1915 *** Genus ''

Salminus ''Salminus'', popularly known as dorado or dourado, is a genus of relatively large (up to long), predatory freshwater fish from the family Bryconidae, of which they are the only members of the subfamily Salmininae. They are native to large trop ...

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, 1829 The earliest known fossil member of this group is †'' Brycon avus'' ( Woodward, 1898) from the

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of Brazil. A slightly older potential specimen of ''B. avus'' is also known from the Late Eocene/Early Oligocene of the Aiuruoca Basin.

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