| Tarumania | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Superfamily: | Erythrinoidea |
| Family: | Tarumaniidae M. de Pinna et al., 2017 |
| Genus: | Tarumania M. de Pinna et al., 2017 |
| Species: | T. walkerae
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| Binomial name | |
| Tarumania walkerae M. de Pinna et al., 2017
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Tarumania is a genus of freshwater fish described in 2017. It contains a single species, Tarumania walkerae, and constitutes the only genus in the family Tarumaniidae. T. walkerae is a predatory species that hunts among the leaf litter on the bottom of flooded forests in the Rio Negro drainage basin.