Published as part of 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), pp. 1-37 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) (Zool. J. Linn. Soc.) 202 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae101, http://zenodo.org/record/13785448

Characidae Latreille, 1825, new usage Type genus: Charax Scopoli, 1777. Included subfamilies: Aphyocharacinae, Characinae, Cheirodontinae, Exodontinae, and Tetragonopterinae.