Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Myleus asterias (Müller & Troschel, 1844) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Myletes asterias Müller & Troschel, 1844 (synonym)

Myletes ellipticus Günther, 1864 (synonym)

Myleus ellipticus (Günther, 1864) (synonym)

Myleus gurupyensis Steindachner, 1911 (synonym)

Myleus schultzi (Ahl, 1938) (synonym)

Myloplus asterias (Müller & Troschel, 1844) (synonym)

Myloplus schulzei Ahl, 1938 (synonym)

Tomete maculatus Amaral Campos, 1944 (synonym)

Common names:

Pacu English, German, Portuguese, Spanish

Pacu branco Portuguese

Schultz' skivekarpelaks Danish

Sirppilevytetra Finnish

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Characiformes

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Family Characidae

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Genus Myleus

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Distribution:

South America: Amazon River basin, north and eastern Guiana Shield rivers (Ref. 39031). Reported from Argentina (Ref. 9086).; Neotropical; Guyana; Brazil; Argentina; America, South - Inland waters; Amazon

Additional data:

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Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 20-Jun-2001

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:3faddb70-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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