Hoplias australis
Hoplias australis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Characiformes |
Family: | Erythrinidae |
Genus: | Hoplias |
Species: | H. australis
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Binomial name | |
Hoplias australis & , 2009[1]
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Hoplias australis is a predatory freshwater characin fish of the southern Neotropics.
Distribution[]
Southern South America, throughout the Rio Uruguay basin, including its tributary Rio Negro, Uruguay where it is endemic.[2]
Taxonomy[]
Osvaldo Oyakawa and George Mattox described Hoplias austalis at the same time as Hoplias curupira.[3]
References[]
- ^ Oyakawa, O. T.; Mattox, G. M. T. (2009). "Revision of the Neotropical trahiras of the Hoplias lacerdae species-group (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Erythrinidae) with descriptions of two new species" (PDF). Neotropical Ichthyology. 7 (2): 117–140. doi:10.1590/S1679-62252009000200001. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-04-07. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
- ^ "Hoplias australis". Fishbase.us. 2016-07-20. Archived from the original on 2021-11-24. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
- ^ "Wolf-fish group revised". Practical Fishkeeping. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
Categories:
- Fish of South America
- Erythrinidae
- Fish described in 2009
- Characiformes stubs