Figure 2 in Description Of A New Genus With Six New Species From Southern Brazil, Uruguay And Argentina, With A Discussion Of A Putative Characid Clade (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae)

Figure 2. Cladogram summarizing present knowledge on the relationships of characids, gasteropelecids and roestines. Lettered boxes A through E represent hypotheses supported by characters presented by A - M. Malabarba (1998); B - Malabarba (1998); C - Lucena (1998); D - Reis (1989) and E - Vari (1977). Lettered boxes F and G arc characters putatively derived that represent possible synapomorphies for the corresponding groups (F - the large fourth infraorbital in all Aphyocharax species; G - a peculiar ontogenetic development of teeth and jaws that includes changes in tooth shape, number of tooth scries in the premaxilla and extension of toothed portion of the premaxilla in the Rhoadsiinae). Numbered boxes represent characters discussed herein (sec under " Cyanocharax relationships").