{{Short description|Subfamily of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Bucktoothed_Tetra.jpg | image_caption = Bucktooth tetra (''Exodon paradoxus'') | taxon = Exodontinae | authority = Fowler, 1958<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 = ''Exodon''<ref name = VDLEF/> | type_genus_authority = Müller & Troschel, 1844<ref name = "Cof family>{{Cof family|family=Exodontinae|access-date=29 September 2025}}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = see text }} '''Exodontidae''' is a subfamily of freshwater ray-finned fishes, the '''toothy''' or '''lepidophagous characins''',<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web |url=https://etyfish.org/exodontinae/ |title=Family CHARACIDAE: Subfamily EXODONTINAE Fowler 1958 (Toothy or Lepidophagous Characins) |author=Christopher Scharpf |date=15 October 2024 |access-date=29 September 2025 |work=The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database |publisher=Christopher Scharpf}}</ref> belonging to the family Characidae. The fishes in this subfamily are found in South America. Until 2024, the family Characidae was considered to include many taxa, sometimes even including African taxa. However, in 2024 a molecular phylogenetic study showed that Characidae, which then included only Neotropical taxa, ''sensu lato'' was polyphyletic and the families Spintherobolidae, Stevardiidae, Characidae and Acestrorhamphidae were recognised, with Characidae being classified into five subfamilies, including Exodontinae.<ref name=Melo>{{Cite journal |last=Melo |first=Bruno F |last2=Ota |first2=Rafaela P |last3=Benine |first3=Ricardo C |last4=Carvalho |first4=Fernando R |last5=Lima |first5=Flavio C T |last6=Mattox |first6=George M T |last7=Souza |first7=Camila S |last8=Faria |first8=Tiago C |last9=Reia |first9=Lais |last10=Roxo |first10=Fabio F |last11=Valdez-Moreno |first11=Martha |last12=Near |first12=Thomas J |last13=Oliveira |first13=Claudio |display-authors=3|date=2024-09-01 |title=Phylogenomics of Characidae, a hyper-diverse Neotropical freshwater fish lineage, with a phylogenetic classification including four families (Teleostei: Characiformes) |url=https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/202/1/zlae101/7748269?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=202 |issue=1 |article-number=zlae101 |doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae101 |issn=0024-4082|url-access=subscription |hdl=11449/301453 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
==Genera== Exodontinae contains the following genera:<ref name = "Cof family"/> {{Linked genus list | Bryconexodon | Géry, 1980 | Exodon | Müller & Troschel, 1844 | Roeboexodon | Géry, 1959 }}
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Category:Characidae Category:Exodontinae Category:Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler Category:Fish subfamilies