Typový druh
Myletes nurse Rüppell, 1832.
Původní popis
Günther, A. 1864. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Siluridae, Characinidae, Haplochitonidae, Sternoptychidae, Scopelidae, Stomiatidae in the collection of the British Museum. v. 5: i-xxii + 1-455.
Použitá literatura
Přehled druhů
Brachyalestes abeli (Fowler, 1936)
afrotetra středoafrická
Brachyalestes affinis (Günther, 1894)
afrotetra růžovoploutvá
Brachyalestes bimaculatus (Boulenger, 1899)
afrotetra dvojskvrnná
Brachyalestes carolinae (Paugy & Lévêque, 1981)
afrotetra niandanská
Brachyalestes comptus (Roberts & Stewart, 1976)
afrotetra inganská
Brachyalestes epuluensis (Decru, Vreven, Sadio & Snoeks, 2016)
Brachyalestes ferox (Hopson & Hopson, 1982)
afrotetra turkanská
Brachyalestes fwaensis (Géry, 1995)
afrotetra lubinská
Brachyalestes humilis (Boulenger, 1905)
afrotetra nízká
Brachyalestes imberi (Peters, 1852)
afrotetra ocasoskvrnná
Brachyalestes jackiae Stiassny & Melo, 2023
Brachyalestes jacksonii (Boulenger, 1912)
afrotetra Jacksonova
Brachyalestes kingsleyae (Günther, 1896)
afrotetra Kingsleyové
Brachyalestes lateralis (Boulenger, 1900)
afrotetra katanžská
Brachyalestes minutus (Hopson & Hopson, 1982)
afrotetra malá
Brachyalestes nigricauda (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1974)
afrotetračernoocasá
Brachyalestes nurse (Rüppell, 1832)
afrotetra káhirská
Brachyalestes opisthotaenia (Boulenger, 1903)
afrotetra zadopruhá
Brachyalestes peringueyi (Boulenger, 1923)
afrotetra rhodéská
Brachyalestes sadleri (Boulenger, 1906)
afrotetra Sadlerova
Brachyalestes taeniurus (Günther, 1867)
afrotetra pentlovitá