After Nelson, 1994, Stewart, 1997, and Froese & Pauly, 2001 ["The FishBase"]
<==o Characinae [paraphyletic assemblage] |--o Acestrorhynchus [Acestrorhynchidae] | |-- A. abbreviatus (Cope, 1878) | |-- A. altus Menezes, 1969 | |-- A. apurensis Toledo-Piza & Menezes, 1996 | |-- A. britskii Menezes, 1969 | |-- A. falcatus (Bloch, 1794) | |-- A. falcirostris (Cuvier, 1819) | |-- A. grandoculis Menezes & Géry, 1983 | |-- A. heterolepis (Cope, 1878) | |-- A. isalineae Menezes & Géry, 1983 | |-- A. lacustris (Lütken, 1875) | |-- A. maculipinna Menezes & Géry, 1983 | |-- A. microlepis (Schomburgk, 1841) (Pike characin) | |-- A. minimus Menezes, 1969 | |-- A. nasutus Eigenmann, 1912 | `-- A. pantaneiro Menezes, 1992 |--o Charax | |-- C. apurensis Lucena, 1987 | |-- C. caudimaculatus Lucena, 1987 | |-- C. condei (Géry & Knöppel, 1976) | |-- C. gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Glass headstander) | |-- C. hemigrammus (Eigenmann, 1912) | |-- C. leticiae Lucena, 1987 | |-- C. macrolepis (Kner, 1858) | |-- C. metae Eigenmann, 1922 | |-- C. michaeli Lucena, 1989 | |-- C. niger Lucena, 1989 | |-- C. notulatus Lucena, 1987 | |-- C. pauciradiatus (Günther, 1864) | |-- C. rupununi Eigenmann, 1912 | |-- C. stenopterus (Cope, 1894) | |-- C. tectifer (Cope, 1870) | `-- C. unimaculatus Lucena, 1989 |--o Cynopotamus | |-- C. amazonus (Günther, 1868) | |-- C. argenteus (Valenciennes, 1836) | |-- C. atratoensis (Eigenmann, 1907) | |-- C. bipunctatus Pellegrin, 1909 | |-- C. essequibensis Eigenmann, 1912 | |-- C. gouldingi Menezes, 1987 | |-- C. juruenae Menezes, 1987 | |-- C. kincaidi (Schultz, 1950) | |-- C. magdalenae (Steindachner, 1879) | |-- C. tocantinensis Menezes, 1987 | `-- C. venezuelae (Schultz, 1944) |--o Priocharax | |-- P. ariel Weitzman & Vari, 1987 | `-- P. pygmaeus Weitzman & Vari, 1987 `--o Roeboides |-- R. affinis (Günther, 1868) |-- R. biserialis (Garman, 1890) |-- R. bonariensis (Steindachner, 1879) |-- R. bouchellei Fowler, 1923 |-- R. carti Lucena, 2000 |-- R. dayi (Steindachner, 1878) |-- R. descalvadensis Fowler, 1932 |-- R. dientonito Schultz, 1944 |-- R. guatemalensis (Günther, 1864) (Guatemalan headstander) |-- R. ilseae Bussing, 1986 |-- R. microlepis (Reinhardt, 1851) |-- R. myersii Gill, 1870 |-- R. numerosus Lucena, 2000 |-- R. occidentalis Meek & Hildebrand, 1916 |-- R. oligistos Lucena, 2000 |-- R. paranensis Pignalberi, 1975 |-- R. prognathus (Boulenger, 1895) |-- R. thurni Eigenmann, 1912 `-- R. xenodon (Reinhardt, 1851)
Reference(s):
- Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds), 2001: FishBase.
–iNet: www.fishbase.org - Nelson, J. S., 1994: Fishes of the world.
–John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 1994, xx-600