Leptagoniates

{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Speciesbox | image = | status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn |author=Lima, F. |year=2023 |title=''Leptagoniates steindachneri'' |volume=2023 |article-number=e.T49830508A53818458 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T49830508A53818458.en |access-date=21 January 2025}}</ref> | parent_authority = Boulenger, 1887<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Aphyocharacinae|access-date=21 September 2025}}</ref> | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Leptagoniates steindachneri | authority = Boulenger, 1887<ref name = "Cof family"/> }}

'''''Leptagoniates''''' is a monospecific genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Characidae. It contains the single species '''''Leptagoniates steindachneri''''',<ref name=Vari2016>{{cite journal |author=Vari, R.P.|author2= Melo, B.F. |author3= Oliveira, C. |year=2016|title= ''Protocheirodon'', a new genus of Characidae (Teleostei: Characiformes) with the redescription of the poorly known ''Protocheirodon pi'' |journal=Neotropical Ichthyology|volume= 14 |issue=2|article-number= e150154|doi= 10.1590/1982-0224-20150154 |hdl= 11449/161789|hdl-access= free}}</ref> which is found in the Amazon River basin in Ecuador and Peru.<ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Leptagoniates|access-date=21 September 2025}}</ref>

Another species, ''L. pi'', had traditionally been placed in this genus, but it was moved to ''Protocheirodon'' in 2016.<ref name=Vari2016/>

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Category:Aphyocharacinae Category:Fish of South America Category:Monotypic Actinopterygii genera Category:Characiformes genera Category:Fish described in 1887 Category:Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger