''Prochilodus'' is a genus of freshwater fish from the family

Prochilodontidae The Prochilodontidae, or flannel-mouthed characins, are a small family of freshwater fishes found primarily in the northern half of South America, south to Paraguay and northern Argentina. This family is closely related to the Curimatidae, and i ...

. This family include two other genera, ''

Ichthyoelephas ''Ichthyoelephas'' is a genus of South American freshwater fish from the family Prochilodontidae. There are two species in the genus: ''I. humeralis'' reaches a length of at least and is found in the Santiago and Guayas river basins in Ecuador ...

'' and ''

Semaprochilodus ''Semaprochilodus'' is a genus of South American freshwater fish in the family Prochilodontidae. They have sometimes been included in the genus '' Prochilodus'' instead. Of the six species, three are from the Amazon Basin, two from the Orinoco B ...

'', which have been included in ''Prochilodus'' instead. The greatest

species richness Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region. Species richness is simply a count of species, and it does not take into account the abundances of the species or their relative ab ...

of ''Prochilodus'' is in

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s in eastern, southeastern and southern

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, but there are also species in the river basins of the

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, Colombia,

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Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

and northeastern

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. The largest species in the genus reach about in length, but most species barely reach half that size.

Species

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recognize the following species in the genus: * '' Prochilodus argenteus''

Spix Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (9 February 1781 – 13 March 1826) was a German biologist. From his expedition to Brazil, he brought to Germany a large variety of specimens of plants, insects, mammals, birds, amphibians and fish. They constitute ...

& Agassiz, 1829 (Curimba) * '' Prochilodus brevis''

Steindachner Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner describ ...

, 1875 (Brazilian bocachico) * '' Prochilodus britskii'' R. M. C. Castro, 1993 * '' Prochilodus costatus''

Valenciennes Valenciennes (, also , , ; nl, label=also Dutch, Valencijn; pcd, Valincyinnes or ; la, Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France. It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced a ...

, 1850 * '' Prochilodus hartii''

, 1875 * '' Prochilodus lacustris''

, 1907 * ''

Prochilodus lineatus ''Prochilodus lineatus'', the streaked prochilod, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Prochilodontidae. It is native to the Paraná—Paraguay and Paraíba do Sul river basins in South America. It performs long breeding migrations an ...

'' (

, 1837) (Streaked prochilos) * '' Prochilodus magdalenae''

, 1879 * '' Prochilodus mariae'' C. H. Eigenmann, 1922 * ''

Prochilodus nigricans ''Prochilodus nigricans'', or black prochilodus, is a species of prochilodontid fish from the Amazon Basin in South America. It supports major fisheries; according to IBAMA, it is the third most caught taxon in the Brazilian Amazon by weight, a ...

& Agassiz, 1829 (Black prochilodus) * '' Prochilodus reticulatus''

, 1850 (Netted prochilod) * '' Prochilodus rubrotaeniatus'' Jardine, 1841 * '' Prochilodus vimboides'' Kner, 1859

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Prochilodontidae Taxa_named_by_Louis_Agassiz Fish of South America {{Characiformes-stub