{{Automatic taxobox | image = Lambari-transparente (Charax stenopterus).jpg | image_caption = ''Charax stenopterus'' | taxon = Characinae | authority = Latreille, 1825<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 1–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | type_genus = ''Charax''<ref name = VDLEF/> | type_genus_authority = Scopoli, 1777<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Characinae|access-date=1 October 2025}}</ref> | synonyms = {{Genus list | Characinus | Lacépède, 1803 | Epicyrtus | J. P. Müller & Troschel, 1844 | Anacyrtus | Günther, 1864 | Asiphonichthys | Cope, 1894 | Moralesia | Fowler, 1943 | Charaxodon | Fernández-Yépez, 1947 | Moralesicus | Fowler, 1958 }} | synonyms_ref = <ref name = "Cof family"/> }} '''Characinae''' is a subfamily of freshwater ray-finned fishes, the nominate subfamily of the family Characidae. The fishes in this subfamily are found in Central and South America, from southern Mexico to Argentina.
==Genera== Characinae contains the following valid genera:<ref name = "Cof family"/> {{Linked genus list | Acanthocharax | C. H. Eigenmann, 1912 | Acestrocephalus | C. H. Eigenmann, 1910 | Atopomesus | Myers, 1927 | ''Charax'' | Scopoli, 1777 | Cynopotamus | Valenciennes, 1850 | Galeocharax | Fowler 1910 | Microschemobrycon | C. H. Eigenmann, 1915 | Phenacogaster | C. H. Eigenmann, 1907 | Roeboides | Günther, 1864 }}
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Category:Characinae Category:Characidae Category:Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille Category:Fish subfamilies