{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Doras | authority = Lacepède, 1803 | type_species = ''Silurus carinatus'' | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1766 | synonyms = ''Mormyrostoma''<br/><small>A. Miranda Ribeiro, 1911</small> }}
'''''Doras''''' is a genus of thorny catfishes native to tropical South America.
== Species == There are currently five recognized species in this genus (three species - ''D. eigenmanni'', ''D. fimbriatus'' and ''D. punctatus'' have recently been moved to the new genus ''Ossancora''):<ref>Birindelli, J.L.O. & Sabaj Pérez, M. (2011): "''Ossancora'', new genus of thorny catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes: Doradidae) with description of one new species". ''Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia'', 161: 117–152.</ref> * ''Doras carinatus'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1766)</small> * ''Doras higuchii'' <small>Sabaj Pérez & Birindelli, 2008</small> * ''Doras micropoeus'' <small>(C. H. Eigenmann, 1912)</small> * ''Doras phlyzakion'' <small>Sabaj Pérez & Birindelli, 2008</small> * ''Doras zuanoni'' <small>Sabaj Pérez & Birindelli, 2008</small>
==Fossil species== *†''Doras dioneae'' <small>Sabaj Pérez, Aguilera & Lundberg, 2007</small> (Miocene)
==References== * {{FishBase genus | genus = Doras| month = December | year = 2011}} <references/>
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Category:Doradidae Category:Fish of South America Category:Fish of the Amazon basin Category:Catfish genera Category:Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède Category:Freshwater fish genera
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