''Apareiodon'' is a
genus
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of
scrapetooths from
South America
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where they are found as far south as
Río de la Plata
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. There are currently fifteen described
species
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in this genus.
Species
* ''
Apareiodon affinis''
(Steindachner
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, 1879) (Darter characine)
* ''
Apareiodon agmatos''
Taphorn, López-Fernández & C. R. Bernard, 2008
* ''
Apareiodon argenteus''
Pavanelli & Britski, 2003
* ''
Apareiodon cavalcante''
Pavanelli & Britski, 2003
* ''
Apareiodon davisi''
Fowler, 1941
* ''
Apareiodon gransabana''
W. C. Starnes & I. Schindler, 1993
* ''
Apareiodon hasemani''
C. H. Eigenmann, 1916
* ''
Apareiodon ibitiensis''
Amaral Campos, 1944
* ''
Apareiodon itapicuruensis''
C. H. Eigenmann & Henn
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;As a given name:
* Henn-Ants Kurg (1898–1943), Estonian military colonel and diplomat
* Henn Pärn (born 1941), Estonian politician
* ...
, 1916
* ''
Apareiodon machrisi''
Travassos, 1957
* ''
Apareiodon orinocensis''
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* Armand ...
, Machado-Allison, Silvera, Chernoff, López Rojas & Lasso
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, 1999
* ''
Apareiodon piracicabae''
( C. H. Eigenmann, 1907)
* ''
Apareiodon tigrinus''
Pavanelli & Britski, 2003
* ''
Apareiodon vittatus''
Garavello, 1977
* ''
Apareiodon vladii''
Pavanelli, 2006
References
*
Fish of South America
Characiformes genera
Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann
Parodontidae
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