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Metynnis hypsauchen (Müller & Troschel, 1844)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Characiformes
family
Serrasalmidae
genus
Metynnis
species
Metynnis hypsauchen

Name

Synonyms
Metynnis calichromus Ahl, 1923
Metynnis calichromus schreitmuelleri Ahl, 1922
Metynnis ehrhardti Ahl, 1927
Metynnis schreitmuelleri Ahl, 1922
Myletes hypsauchen Müller & Troschel, 1844
Homonyms
Metynnis hypsauchen (Müller & Troschel, 1844)
Common names
Pacu in Portuguese
Pacu, Pacu-marreca in Portuguese
Pacu-marreca in Portuguese
Plain Metynnis in English
Schreitmuller's Metynnis in English
Silver Dollar in English
metynis rostlinožravý in Czech
plain silver dollar in English
Дисковидная рыба-доллар in Russian
Дисковидный метиннис in Russian
Метиннис обыкновенный in Russian
高身銀板魚 in Chinese

Bibliographic References

  1. Bogotá-Gregory, J. D., & Maldonado-Ocampo, J. A. 2005. La colección de peces del Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. Nuevos registros y representatividad. Parte II: Amazonia. Dahlia (8): 61-69. | Maldonado-Ocampo, J.A. & Bogotá-Gregory, J.D. 2007. Peces. pp. 237-245. En: Villarreal-Leal, H. & Maldonado-Ocampo J. (comp.). Caracterización Biológica del Parque Nacional Natural El Tuparro (Sector NE), Vichada, Colombia. Instituto Alexander von Humboldt. Bogotá D.C., Colombia, 286 pp.
  2. Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
  3. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  4. 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
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