Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Piaractus brachypomus (Cuvier, 1818) (accepted name)

Synonyms:

Colossoma bidens (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) (synonym)

Colossoma brachypomum (Cuvier, 1818) (synonym)

Colossoma branchypomus (Cuvier, 1818) (synonym)

Colossoma mitrei (non Berg, 1895) (misapplied name)

Colossoma paco (Humboldt, 1821) (synonym)

Myletes bidens Spix & Agassiz, 1829 (synonym)

Myletes brachypomus Cuvier, 1818 (synonym)

Myletes edulis (non Castelnau, 1855) (misapplied name)

Myletes mitrei (non Berg, 1895) (misapplied name)

Myletes paco Humboldt, 1821 (synonym)

Piaractus brachipomus (Cuvier, 1818) (synonym)

Piaractus briachypumus (Cuvier, 1818) (synonym)

Piaractus mitrei (non Berg, 1895) (misapplied name)

Reganina bidens (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) (synonym)

Wateina fowleri Amaral Campos, 1946 (synonym)

Common names:

双齿巨脂鲤 Mandarin Chinese

短盖巨脂鲤 Mandarin Chinese

短盖肥脂鲤(淡水白鲳) Mandarin Chinese

短蓋巨脂鯉 Mandarin Chinese

短蓋肥脂鯉(淡水白鯧) Mandarin Chinese

雙齒巨脂鯉 Mandarin Chinese

Cachama English, Spanish

Cachama blanca Spanish

Caranha Portuguese

Freshwater pompano English

Gamitana-Scheibensalmler German

Morocoto Spanish

Paco Spanish

Pacu English, German, Portuguese, Spanish

Paku Finnish, Hawaiian, Malay, Oyampi, Visayan

Pirapatinga English

Pirapitinga English, Portuguese, Swedish

Punapaku Finnish

Riesenpacu German

Sølvpacu Danish

Tambaqui English, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish

Classification:

Animalia

LSID

Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

LSID

Order Characiformes

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Family Characidae

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Genus Piaractus

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Distribution:

Venezuela; Taiwan; South America: Amazon and Orinoco River basins (Ref. 39031). Reported from Argentina (Ref. 9086).; Peru; Papua New Guinea; Orinoco; Oriental; Oceania - Inland waters; Neotropical; Myanmar; Colombia; China; Canada; Brazil; Bolivia; Australian; Asia - Inland waters; Argentina; America, South - Inland waters; Amazon

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:4036ce65-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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