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Hoplias malabaricus Bloch 1794

Description

Hoplias malabaricus (Bloch, 1794)

(Fig. 12)

FIRST RECORD FOR THE MITARAKA. — This study.

OCCURENCES. — S4, S11, S12, S14.

SPECIMENS IN COLLECTION. — 2 MNHN (MNHN-IC-2018-0461,

MNHN-IC-2018-0462); 1 Hydreco.

DISTRIBUTION IN FRENCH GUIANA. — Widespread.

ECOLOGY. — Found in pools or hidden under branches in slow flowing and standing water areas in both Alama mainstream and tributaries. Captured using rotenone and in baited traps. Also observed in underwater inventories.

SPECIES CODE. — HMAL.

Notes

Published as part of Sébastien Brosse, Fréderic Melki & Régis Vigouroux, 2019, Fishes of the Mitaraka Mountains (French Guiana), pp. 131-151 in Zoosystema 41 (8) on page 140, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a8, http://zenodo.org/record/2639414

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bloch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Characiformes
Family
Erythrinidae
Genus
Hoplias
Species
malabaricus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hoplias malabaricus Bloch, 1794 sec. Brosse, Melki & Vigouroux, 2019