Hydrolycus wallacei

Hydrolycus wallacei, Wallace's payara, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cynodontidae, the dogtooth tetras. This fish is found in the upper Orinoco and Rio Negro in Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia.

Hydrolycus wallacei
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Cynodontidae
Genus:	Hydrolycus
Species:	H. wallacei
Binomial name
Hydrolycus wallacei Toledo-Piza, Menezes & dos Santos, 1999