Pygocentrus piraya (Cuvier, 1819)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- order
- Characiformes
- family
- Serrasalmidae
- genus
- Pygocentrus
- species
- Pygocentrus piraya
Name
- Synonyms
- Polycentrus piraya Cuvier, 1819
- Pygocentrus bidorsalis Kner, 1860
- Pygocentrus piranha (Spix & Agassiz, 1829)
- Serrasalmo ferox Swainson, 1838
- Serrasalmo piranha Spix & Agassiz, 1829
- Serrasalmus piraya Cuvier, 1819
- Homonyms
- Pygocentrus piraya (Cuvier, 1819)
- Common names
- Black-tailed Piranha in English
- Chupita in German
- Piranha in Portuguese
- Piranha in Portuguese
- Piranha-do-São-Francisco in Portuguese
- Piraya in German
- Piraya Piranha in English
- Piraña de San Francisco in Spanish
- Rio São Francisco Piranha in English
- San Francisco Piranha in English
- Sorthalet piratfisk in Danish
- pirania brazylijska in Polish
- piraňa tmavá in Czech
- Пиранья обыкновенная in Russian
- Піранья in Ukrainian
- ปลาปิรันยาหางดำ in Thai
- Piranha in Portuguese
Bibliographic References
- Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
- Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
- Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4