Summary description from Wikipedia:

Characidae in languages:

Danish

Ægte amerikanske tetraer

English

Characids

English

Characins

Japanese

カラシン科

Thai

วงศ์ ปลาคาราซิด

Ukrainian

Харацинові

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Parent Taxon

• Characiformes

Sibling Taxa

• Acestrorhynchidae
• Alestidae
• Anostomidae
• Bryconidae
• Chalceidae
• Characidae
• Chilodontidae
• Crenuchidae
• Ctenoluciidae
• Curimatidae
• Cynodontidae
• Erythrinidae
• Gasteropelecidae
• Hemiodontidae
• Hepsetidae
• Iguanodectidae
• Lebiasinidae
• Parodontidae
• Prochilodontidae
• Serrasalmidae
• Tarumaniidae
• Triportheidae

Child Taxa

• Aphyocharacinae
• Characinae
• Cheirodontinae
• Dectobrycon
• Exodontinae
• Genycharax
• Leptobrycon
• Mixobrycon
• Oligobrycon
• Oxybrycon
• Psellogrammus
• Schultzites
• Serrabrycon
• Spintherobolinae
• Stethaprioninae
• Stevardiinae
• Tetragonopterinae
• Thrissobrycon
• Tucanoichthys

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