Parodon

Parodon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Parodontidae
Genus:	Parodon Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1850

Parodon is a genus of scrapetooths found in tropical South America. There are currently 14 described species in this genus.

Species

Parodon alfonsoi Londoño-Burbano, Román-Valencia & Taphorn, 2011^[1]
Parodon apolinari Myers, 1930
Parodon atratoensis Londoño-Burbano, Román-Valencia & Taphorn, 2011^[1]
Parodon bifasciatus C. H. Eigenmann, 1912
Parodon buckleyi Boulenger, 1887
Parodon caliensis Boulenger, 1895
Parodon carrikeri Fowler, 1940
Parodon guyanensis Géry, 1959
Parodon hilarii J. T. Reinhardt, 1867
Parodon magdalenensis Londoño-Burbano, Román-Valencia & Taphorn, 2011^[1]
Parodon moreirai Ingenito & Buckup, 2005
Parodon nasus Kner, 1859
Parodon pongoensis (W. R. Allen, 1942) (Pongo characin)
Parodon suborbitalis Valenciennes, 1850

References

Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2011). Species of Parodon in FishBase. October 2011 version.

^ ^a ^b ^c Londoño-Burbano, A., Román-Valencia, C. & Taphorn, D.C. (2011): Taxonomic review of Colombian Parodon (Characiformes: Parodontidae), with descriptions of three new species. Neotropical Ichthyology, 9 (4): 709-730.