Scrapetooths

Parodon is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Parodontidae, the scrapetooths. The fishes in this genus are from the tropical and subtropical Neotropics, their distribution extending as far south as the Río de la Plata. Taxonomy Parodon was first proposed as a genus in 1850 by the French zoologist Achille Valenciennes in volume 22 of his and Georges Cuvier's Histoire naturelle des poissons.

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Parodon apolinari es una especie de peces de la familia Parodontidae en el orden de los Characiformes. Morfología Los machos pueden llegar alcanzar los 9,3 cm de longitud total. ​​ Hábitat Es un pez de agua dulce y de clima tropical.