Tetragonopterinae Gill, 1858

Melo, Bruno F, Ota, Rafaela P, Benine, Ricardo C, Carvalho, Fernando R, Lima, Flavio C T, Mattox, George M T, Souza, Camila S, Faria, Tiago C, Reia, Lais, Roxo, Fabio F, Valdez-Moreno, Martha, Near, Thomas J & Oliveira, Claudio, 2024, Phylogenomics of Characidae, a hyper-diverse Neotropical freshwater fish lineage, with a phylogenetic classification including four families (Teleostei: Characiformes), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 202 (1), pp. 1-37 : 15

Tetragonopterinae Gill, 1858

Type genus: Tetragonopterus Cuvier, 1816 .

Included genus: Tetragonopterus .

Definition: The least inclusive crown clade that contains Tetragonopterus argenteus Cuvier, 1816 and Tetragonopterus georgiae (Géry, 1965) . This is a minimum-crown-clade definition. See Figure 4 for a reference phylogeny of Tetragonopterinae .

Etymology: From the ancient Greek τετΡᾰ- (tˈɛtɹə) meaning four, γωνία (ɡˈo͡ʊniə) meaning angle, and πτεΡὀν (tˈɛɹɑːn) meaning

Figures

Figure 4. Phylogeny of Characidae and subfamilies Aphyocharacinae, Cheirodontinae, Exodontinae, Tetragonopterinae, and Characinae based on 1348 nuclear loci of ultraconserved elements (538 472 bp). Numbers near nodes represent bootstrap support.