Polycentridae
| Polycentridae | |
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Monocirrhus polyacanthus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| (unranked): | Ovalentaria |
| Family: | Polycentridae T. N. Gill , 1858
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| Genera[1] | |
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Leaffishes are small fishes of the
Polycentropsis in Polycentridae.[4] Polycentridae were formerly placed in the order Cichliformes but are now regarded as being incertae sedis in the subseries Ovalentaria in the clade Percomorpha.[5]
All of these fishes are highly specialized ambush
acidic water and copious amounts of live foods
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Genera and species
- Genus Monocirrhus Heckel, 1840
- Monocirrhus polyacanthus Heckel, 1840 (Amazon leaffish)
- Genus Polycentrus Müller & Troschel, 1849
- Polycentrus jundia Coutinho & Wosiacki, 2014 [6]
- Polycentrus schomburgkii Müller & Troschel, 1849 (Guyana leaffish)
References
- PMID 28683774.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Polycentridae" in FishBase. February 2019 version.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Nandidae" in FishBase. February 2019 version.
- ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- .