Adontosternarchus is a genus of ghost knifefishes found in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins in tropical South America. They have blunt snouts, a dark-spotted or -mottled pattern on a pale background (however, spotting/mottling can be so dense that individuals appear almost all dark) and reach up to in total length. They feed on zooplankton and can be found quite deep, with A. devenanzii recorded down to .
Species There are currently six recognized species in this genus:
Adontosternarchus balaenops (Cope, 1878) Adontosternarchus clarkae Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985 Adontosternarchus devenanzii Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985 Adontosternarchus duartei de Santana & Vari, 2012de Santana, C.D. & Vari, R.P. (2012): New Species of Adontosternarchus (Gymnotiformes, Apteronotidae) from the Rio Purus Basin, Brazil. Copeia, 2012 (3): 535-540. Adontosternarchus nebulosus Lundberg & Cox Fernandes, 2007 Adontosternarchus sachsi (W. K. H. Peters, 1877)
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