Hoplias australis is a predatory freshwater characin fish of the southern Neotropics.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Erythrinidae |
| Genus: | Hoplias |
| Species: | H. australis
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| Hoplias australis | |
Distribution
editSouthern South America, throughout the Rio Uruguay basin, including its tributary Rio Negro, Uruguay where it is endemic.[3]
Taxonomy
editOsvaldo Oyakawa and George Mattox described Hoplias australis at the same time as Hoplias curupira.[4]
References
edit- ^ Salvador, G.N. (2023). "Hoplias australis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T187092A1822999. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T187092A1822999.en. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Hoplias australis". FishBase. November 2021 version.
- ^ "Wolf-fish group revised". Practical Fishkeeping. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
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