Cynodontidae
Hydrolycus sp.
The Wolfssalmler (. Cynodontidae, Gr: " kyon " - " onos " = dog " Odous " = tooth) or Säbelzahnsalmler are 28 centimeters to over a meter long predatory fish in the river systems of the Amazon, the Orinoco, and in the rivers the three Guyanas live. Only one species lives in Paraná ( Rhaphiodon vulpinus ).
Features
Wolfssalmler 28 centimeters to over a meter long. They fall mainly by two elongated in some species saber -like fangs in the lower jaw. Your mouth is constantly above the pectoral fins are relatively long. Wolfssalmler are proven fossil since the Miocene.
System
- Family Wolfssalmler ( Cynodontidae ) genus Cynodon Cynodon gibbus
- Cynodon meionactis
- Cynodon septenarius
- Hydrolycus armatus
- Hydrolycus scomberoides
- Hydrolycus tatauaia
- Hydrolycus wallacei
- Rhaphiodon vulpinus