# Saccoderma

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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox 
| image =   Saccoderma_hastata_(16619360079).jpg
| image_caption = ''Saccoderma hastata''
| taxon = Saccoderma
| image_alt = A small fish with silver skin and a back stripe running all the way across the side of its body
| authority = [Schultz](/source/Leonard_Peter_Schultz), 1944<ref name = "Cof family">{{Cof family|family=Cheirodontinae|access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref>
| type_species = Saccoderma melanostigma 
| type_species_authority = Schultz, 1944<ref name = "Cof family"/>
}}

'''''Saccoderma''''' is a genus of freshwater [ray-finned fish](/source/Actinopterygii), [characin](/source/characin)s, belonging to the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Characidae](/source/Characidae). The fishes in this genus are found in Colombia and Venezuela. 

==Species==
''Saccoderma'' contains the following valid species:<ref name = "Cof genus">{{Cof genus|genus=Saccoderma|access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref>
{{Linked species list
| Saccoderma hastata | [C. H. Eigenmann](/source/Carl_H._Eigenmann), 1913
| Saccoderma melanostigma | [Schultz](/source/Leonard_Peter_Schultz), 1944
}}

In addition, there are two taxa which are regarded as ''[species inquirenda](/source/Species_inquirenda)'', ''[S. falcata](/source/Saccoderma_falcata)'' and ''[S. robusta](/source/Saccoderma_robusta)'', both described by [Georg Dahl](/source/%3Asv%3AGeorg_Dahl_(professor)) in 1955.<ref name = "Cof genus"/><ref name = Checklist>{{cite journal |author=Toledo-Piza, M. |author2=E. G. Baena |author3=F. C. P. Dagosta |author4=N. A. Menezes |author5=M. Ândrade |author6=R. C. Benine |author7=V. A. Bertaco |author8=J. L. Birindelli |author9=G. Boden |author10=P. A. Buckup |author11=P. Camelier |author12=F. R. Carvalho |author13=R. M. C. Castro |author14=J. Chuctaya |author15=E. Decru |author16=Eddy Derijst |author17=Casey B. Dillman |author18=Katiane M. Ferreira |author19=Dimitri G. Merxem |author20=Victor Giovannetti |author21=Alice Hirschmann |author22=Michel Jégu |author23=Fernando C. Jerep |author24=Francisco Langeani |author25=Flávio C. T. Lima |author26=Carlos A. S. Lucena |author27=Zilda Margarete S. Lucena |author28=Luiz R. Malabarba |author29=Maria Cláudia S. L. Malabarba |author30=Manoela M. F. Marinho |author31=Kleber Mathubara |author32=George M. T. Mattox |author33=Bruno F. Melo |author34=Tuur Moelant |author35=Cristiano R. Moreira |author36=Tobias Musschoot |author37=André L. Netto-Ferreira |author38=Rafaela P. Ota |author39=Osvaldo T. Oyakawa |author40=Carla S. Pavanelli |author41=Roberto E. Reis |author42=Osmar Santos |author43=Jane Piton Serra |author44=Gabriel S. C. Silva |author45=Cárlison Silva-Oliveira |author46=Rosana Souza-Lima |author47=Richard P. Vari |author48=Angela M. Zanata |display-authors=3 |year=2024 |title=
Checklist of the species of the Order Characiformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi) |journal=Neotropical Ichthyology |volume=22 |issue=1 |article-number=e230086 |pages=1-548 |id=lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3A8C03AC-C66B-49B5-9269-E9A26ABA7EBF |doi=10.1590/1982-0224-2023-0086|doi-access=free }}</ref>

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

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Category:Cheirodontinae
Category:Fish of South America
Category:Taxa named by Leonard Peter Schultz

{{Characidae-stub}}

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