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Biting Tetras

Roestinae

Roestinae is a subfamily of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Acestrorhynchidae, the fishes in this subfamily are known as biting tetras. These fishes are found in South America.

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2 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first · about 6 known species

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 788718.