''Anodus'' is a genus of

halftooth The Hemiodontidae are a small family of freshwater characins found in northern South America, south to the Paraná-Paraguay Basin. The larger species are popular food fish. Hemiodontids have a streamlined body shape; many are fast-swimming, and ...

s from

tropical The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to ...

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

. There are currently two species in this genus.

Species

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Anodus elongatus ''Anodus'' is a genus of halftooths from tropical South America. There are currently two species in this genus. Species * '' Anodus elongatus'' Agassiz, 1829 * '' Anodus orinocensis'' (Steindachner Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vi ...

Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he rec ...

, 1829 * ''

Anodus orinocensis ''Anodus'' is a genus of halftooths from tropical South America. There are currently two species in this genus. Species * ''Anodus elongatus'' Agassiz, 1829 * '' Anodus orinocensis'' (Steindachner Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vie ...

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Steindachner Franz Steindachner (11 November 1834 in Vienna – 10 December 1919 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He published over 200 papers on fishes and over 50 papers on reptiles and amphibians. Steindachner describ ...

, 1887)

References

* Hemiodontidae Characiformes genera Taxa named by Johann Baptist von Spix Fish of South America {{Characiformes-stub