Roestes

Roestes is a genus of dogtooth characins from tropical South America, where found in the Amazon Basin and various rivers in the Guianas. There are three described species in this genus.

Species

 * Roestes itupiranga Menezes & C. A. S. de Lucena, 1998
 * Roestes molossus (Kner, 1858)
 * Roestes ogilviei (Fowler, 1914)