Roestes

Roestes is a genus of dogtooth characins from tropical South America, where found in the Amazon Basin and various rivers in the Guianas. There are three described species in this genus.

Species

• Roestes itupiranga Menezes & C. A. S. de Lucena, 1998
• Roestes molossus (Kner, 1858)
• Roestes ogilviei (Fowler, 1914)

References

• Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). Species of Roestes in FishBase. October 2011 version.