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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Otomorpha
Subcohors: Ostariophysi
Sectio: Otophysa
Ordo: Characiformes

Familia: Serrasalmidae
Genus: Acnodon

Species (3): A. normani – A. oligacanthus – A. senai
Name

Acnodon Eigenmann, 1903: 147
Gender: masculine.
Type species: Myleus oligacanthus Müller & Troschel, 1844.
Fixation: type by original designation (also monotypic).

References
Primary references

Eigenmann, C.H. 1903. New genera of South American fresh-water fishes, and new names for old genera. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 45: 144–148. BHL

Links

Acnodon Eigenmann, 1903 – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Acnodon and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2023. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Acnodon species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2023. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 06/2022.

Acnodon is a genus of serrasalmids found in South America, with three recognized species:[1]

Acnodon normani Gosline, 1951 (sheep-pacu)
Acnodon oligacanthus (J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1844)
Acnodon senai Jégu & dos Santos, 1990

References

Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Acnodon in FishBase. April 2013 version.

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