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''Cnesterodon pirai'', the Almeida toothcarp, is a species of poeciliid that is only know from its type locality, the arroyo Almeida, an affluent of the arroyo Cuñá-Pirú, in the Río Paraná basin, Aristóbulo del Valle, Misiones in Argentina.


Length

This species reaches a length of TL.


Etymology

The species name meaning is pirá, a Guarani word for fish and the í diminutive, referring to the small size of the fishes in this genus.


References

Poeciliidae Fish of South America Taxa named by Gastón Aguilera Taxa named by Juan Marco Mirande Taxa named by María de las Mercedes Azpelicueta Fish described in 2009 {{Cyprinodontiformes-stub