Family Characinidae (ray-finned fish)
Actinopteri - Heterognathi - Characinidae
Parent taxon: Heterognathi according to D. S. Jordan 1963
See also Schaeffer 1947
Sister taxon: Xiphiostomidae
Subtaxa: Eobrycon
Ecology:
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Characinidae in the database