Piaractus mesopotamicus (Holmberg, 1887)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- order
- Characiformes
- family
- Serrasalmidae
- genus
- Piaractus
- species
- Piaractus mesopotamicus
Name
- Synonyms
- Colosoma canterai Devincenzi, 1942
- Colossoma canterai Devincenzi, 1942
- Colossoma mitrei (Berg, 1895)
- Myletes edulis Castelnau, 1855
- Myletes mesopotamicus Holmberg, 1887
- Myletes mitrei Berg, 1895
- Homonyms
- Piaractus mesopotamicus (Holmberg, 1887)
- Common names
- Caranha, Pacu, Pacu caranha in Portuguese
- Pacu in Portuguese
- Pacu-caranha in Portuguese
- Pacú in Spanish
- Paraná Pacu in English
- Paraná River Pacu in English
- Pirapitinga in Portuguese
- Small-scaled Pacu in English
- caranha in Portuguese
- myletes jedlý in Czech
- Паку in Russian
- ปลาคู้เกล็ดเล็ก in Thai
- コロソマ in Japanese
- Pirapitinga in Portuguese
- Pacu in Portuguese
- Pacu-caranha in Portuguese
Bibliographic References
- 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