Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Piaractus mesopotamicus (Holmberg, 1887) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Colossoma canterai Devincenzi, 1942 (synonym)

Colossoma mitrei (Berg, 1895) (synonym)

Myletes edulis Castelnau, 1855 (synonym)

Myletes mesopotamicus Holmberg, 1891 (synonym)

Myletes mitrei Berg, 1895 (synonym)

Common names:

Caranha Portuguese

Paco Spanish

Pacu English, German, Portuguese, Spanish

Pacu caranha Portuguese

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 Piaractus

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Distribution:

Uruguay; South America: Paraguay-Paraná River basin.; Paraná; Paraguay; Neotropical; Brazil; Bolivia; Argentina; America, South - Inland waters

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Data last modified by FishBase 23-Jun-2001

Online resource:

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


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:3fbbc9d7-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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