{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Compsura | authority = C. H. Eigenmann, 1915<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Cheirodontinae|access-date=27 September 2025}}</ref> | type_species = Compsura heterura | type_species_authority = C. H. Eigenmann, 1915<ref name = "Cof family"/> }}

'''''Compsura''''' is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fish, characins, belonging to the family Characidae. One species occurs in Panama (''C. gorgonae''), and the other in eastern Brazil.

==Species== ''Compsura'' contains the following valid species:<ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Compsura|access-date=27 September 2025}}</ref> * ''Compsura gorgonae'' <small>(Evermann & Goldsborough, 1909)</small> * ''Compsura heterura'' <small>C. H. Eigenmann, 1915</small>

==References== * {{FishBase genus | genus = Compsura| month = October | year = 2011}} {{Reflist}}

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Category:Cheirodontinae Category:Taxa named by Carl H. Eigenmann

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