Myxiops

Myxiops is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes in the subfamily Stygichthyinae of family Acestrorhamphidae, the American tetras. The name is an allusion to the slime that the fish produces, from the Greek μύξα (mýxa) meaning "mucus". Formerly monotypic including only M. aphos, and both species were at some time allocated to its sister taxon of Deuterodon, before the genus was revalidated in 2024.^[2]

Myxiops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Acestrorhamphidae
Subfamily:	Stygichthyinae
Genus:	Myxiops Zanata & Akama, 2004
Type species
Myxiops aphos Zanata & Akama 2004[1]

Species

The genus currently includes the following valid species:^[3]

• Myxiops aphos Zanata & Akama, 2004
• Myxiops pelecus (Bertaco & C. A. S. de Lucena, 2006)