Definition of Family Characinidae

1. Noun. Former name of the Characidae.

Exact synonyms: Characinidae
Generic synonyms: Fish Family

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Characinidae

family Ceratostomataceae
family Cercidiphyllaceae
family Cercopidae
family Cercopithecidae
family Certhiidae
family Cervidae
family Cestidae
family Cetorhinidae
family Chaetodontidae
family Chalcidae
family Chalcididae
family Chamaeleonidae
family Chamaeleontidae
family Characeae
family Characidae
family Characinidae (current term)
family Charadriidae
family Chelonidae
family Cheloniidae
family Chelydridae
family Chenopodiaceae
family Chermidae
family Chimaeridae
family Chinchillidae
family Chironomidae
family Chlamydiaceae
family Chlamydomonadaceae
family Chloranthaceae
family Chlorophthalmidae
family Chrysochloridae

Literary usage of Family Characinidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... for example, restricted to the two areas, with one genus in each, as is also the family Characinidae. Much the same may be said of the Cichlidae, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1868)
"The Neotropical type of Testudinata is quite coincident with the family Characinidae in relations. It is, like it, largely distributed over the Southern ..."

3. The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1886)
"The Neotropical type of Testudinata is quite coincident with the family Characinidae in relations. It is, like it, largely distributed over the Southern ..."

4. My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions by Alfred Russel Wallace (1905)
"... lateristriga) belong to the family Characinidae, a group which abounds in the fresh waters of tropical America and Africa, where it replaces the carps ..."

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