Brachychalcinus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Characiformes
- Family
- Characidae
- Genus
- Brachychalcinus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Brachychalcinus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Brachychalcinus
Brachychalcinus is a genus of characins found in tropical South America, with five currently described species:
- Brachychalcinus copei (Steindachner, 1882)
- Brachychalcinus nummus J. E. Böhlke, 1958
- Brachychalcinus orbicularis (Valenciennes, 1850) (discus tetra)
- Brachychalcinus parnaibae R. E. dos Reis, 1989
- Brachychalcinus reisi Garcia-Ayala, Ohara, Pastana & Benine, 2017
- Brachychalcinus retrospina Boulenger, 1892
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Andromakhe
- Aphyodite
- Astyanax
- Bario
- Brachychalcinus
- Brittanichthys
- Bryconella
- Carlana
- Coptobrycon
- Ctenobrycon
- Deuterodon
- Dinotopterygium
- Ectrepopterus
- Erythrocharax
- Grundulus
- Gymnocharacinus
- Gymnocorymbus
- Hasemania
- Hemigrammus
- Hollandichthys
- Hyphessobrycon
- Inpaichthys
- Jupiaba
- Makunaima
- Moenkhausia
- Nematobrycon
- Nematocharax
- Oligosarcus
- Orthospinus
- Paracheirodon
- Parapristella
- Parastremma
- Parecbasis
- Petitella
- Phycocharax
- Poptella
- Pristella
- Psalidodon
- Pseudochalceus
- Rachoviscus
- Rhoadsia
- Stethaprion
- Stichonodon
- Stygichthys
- Thayeria
- Tyttobrycon