{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{speciesbox | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref name = iucn>{{cite iucn |author=Usma, S. |author2=Villa-Navarro, F. |author3=DoNascimiento, CD |author4=Mojica, J.I. |author5=Rodríguez-Olarte, D. |author6=Herrera-Collazos, E.E. |display-authors=3 |year=2022 |title=''Cheirodontops geayi'' |article-number=e.T175961263A175961273 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T175961263A175961273.en |access-date=27 September 2025}}</ref> | image = | image_caption = | parent_authority = Schultz, 1944<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Cheirodontinae|access-date=27 September 2025}}</ref> | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Cheirodontops geayi | authority = Schultz, 1944<ref name = "Cof family"/> }}
'''''Cheirodontops''''' is a monospecific genus of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Characidae.<ref name = "Cof family"/> The only species in this genus is '''''Cheirodontops geayi''''', a characin, which is endemic to the basin of the Orinoco in Colombia and Venezuela.<ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Cheirodontops|access-date=27 September 2025}}</ref> This small fish has a fusiform body shape and attains a maximum standard length of {{cvt|4.0|cm}}.<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase|Cheirodontops|geayi|month=April|year=2025}}</ref> The genus name, ''Cheirodontops'', suffixes the genus name ''Cheirodon'' with ''ops'', which means "eye" or "face" and is an allusion to the similarity of this taxon to other fishes in the subfamily Cheirodontinae, although this species has a complete lateral line. The specific name, ''geayi'', honours the French pharmacist and naturalist Martin François Geay who wrote a book on the fishes of the Orinoco, "''Pêches dans les Affluentes de l'Orinoque''", published in 1896–1897.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web |url=https://etyfish.org/cheirodontinae/ |title=Family CHARACIDAE: Subfamily CHEIRODONTINAE Eigenmann 1915 (Cheirodontines) |author=Christopher Scharpf |date=31 August 2025 |access-date=27 September 2025 |work=The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database |publisher=Christopher Scharpf}}</ref>
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Category:Cheirodontinae Category:Monotypic Actinopterygii genera Category:Fish of South America Category:Fish described in 1944 Category:Taxa named by Leonard Peter Schultz
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