''Roestes'' is a genus of
dogtooth characin
Cynodontidae, also known as dogtooth characins or vampire tetras, are a family (biology), family of predatory, characiform freshwater fishes from South America. This group is not very diverse, and includes only five Genus, genera and 14 species. ...
s from
tropical
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the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...
South America
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, where found in the
Amazon Basin
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and various rivers in
the Guianas
The Guianas, sometimes called by the Spanish loan-word ''Guayanas'' (''Las Guayanas''), is a region in north-eastern South America which includes the following three territories:
* French Guiana, an overseas department and region of France ...
. There are three described species in this genus.
Species
* ''
Roestes itupiranga''
Menezes Menezes, sometimes Meneses, was originally a Portuguese toponymic surname which originated in Montes Torozos, a region in Tierra de Campos, northeast of Valladolid and southeast of Palencia. The ancestor of the Meneses lineage was Tello Pérez de Me ...
& C. A. S. de Lucena, 1998
* ''
Roestes molossus''
( Kner, 1858)
* ''
Roestes ogilviei''
( Fowler, 1914)
References
*
Cynodontidae
Fish of South America
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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