Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Leporinus acutidens (Valenciennes, 1837) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Curimatus acutidens Valenciennes, 1837 (synonym)

Leporinus friderici subsp. acutidens (Valenciennes, 1837) (synonym)

Common names:

Araçau Portuguese

Aracau branco Portuguese

Boga Bahasa Indonesia, Catalan, Creole, Portuguese, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Kannada, Portuguese, Spanish

Piava Portuguese, Spanish

Piava de três pintas Portuguese

Pirá-pihtá Guarani

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 Anostomidae

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Genus Leporinus

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Distribution:

Paraná; Neotropical; Iguazú River; French Guiana; Brazil; Argentina; America, South - Inland waters; Amazon; South America: Amazon river basin and Guiana rivers (Ref. 36801). Reported from Argentina (Ref. 56308).

Additional data:

Author year from Eschmeyer 2007; name available from plate published in 1877 (Ref. 58462).

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Group expert : Garavello J.

Online resource:

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


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:3ff135e5-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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