''Leporinus'' is a

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fish A fish (: fish or fishes) is an aquatic animal, aquatic, Anamniotes, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fish fin, fins and craniate, a hard skull, but lacking limb (anatomy), limbs with digit (anatomy), digits. Fish can ...

in the

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Anostomidae The Anostomidae are a family of ray-finned fishes that belong to the order Characiformes. Closely related to the Chilodidae and formerly included with them, the Anostomidae contain about 150 described species. Commonly known as anostomids, they ...

native to

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. The

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''Leporinus scalabrinii'', known from the late

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of Entre Ríos in

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, has only recently been added to this genus after being misidentified as a species of

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under the name ''Arrhinolemur scalabrinii'' for over 100 years.Bogan, S., Sidlauskas, B., Vari, R.P. & Agnolin, F. (2012)
''Arrhinolemur scalabrinii'' Ameghino, 1898, of the late Miocene - a taxonomic journey from the Mammalia to the Anostomidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes).
'' Neotropical Ichthyology, 10 (3): 555–560.''

Species

There are currently 78 recognized species in this genus: † = extinct

Synonyms

The following species were formerly placed in ''Leporinus'' but have since been moved to other genera: * '' Hypomasticus copelandii'' was described as ''Leporinus copelandii'' * '' Hypomasticus steindachneri'' was described as ''Leporinus steindachneri'' C. H. Eigenmann, 1907

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2716527 Anostomidae Fish of South America Freshwater fish genera Taxa named by Louis Agassiz