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The Citharinidae, the lutefishes, are a small family of
characiform Characiformes is an order of Actinopterygii, 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 ...
fish. They are freshwater fish native to Africa, and are sufficiently abundant to be significant food fishes. They are deep-bodied, silvery fish, measuring up to in length and weighing up to . They are filter feeders.


Genera

The family contains three genera:Citharidium ''Citharidium'' is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Citharinidae, the lutefishes. The only species in this genus is ''Citharidium ansorgii'' which is found in the Niger River basin in Nigeria. They report ...
'' Boulenger, 1902 (monotypic) *''
Citharinops ''Citharinops'' is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Citharinidae, the lutefishes. The only species in the genus is ''Citharinops distichodoides'' which is found in the catchemnts of Lake Chad, the Benué ...
'' Daget, 1962 (monotypic) *''
Citharinus ''Citharinus'' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Citharinidae, the lutefishes. The fishes in this genus are found in tropical Africa. Species ''Citharinus'' contains the following species: * '' Citharinus citharu ...
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Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (; ), was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...
, 1817
(6 species)


References

* Characiformes families Taxa named by Albert Günther {{characiformes-stub