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Serrasalmus elongatus Kner, 1858

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Kner, R. (1858). Zur Familie der Characinen. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> 32 (22): 163-168.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Characiformes
family
Serrasalmidae
genus
Serrasalmus
species
Serrasalmus elongatus

Name

Synonyms
Serrasalmus pingke Fernández-Yépez, 1951
Homonyms
Serrasalmus elongatus Kner, 1858
Common names
Caribe pinche in Spanish
Pike Piranha in English
Piranha comprida in Portuguese
Piranha comprida, Piranha mucura in Portuguese
Slank piratfisk in Danish
Slender piranha in English
piraňa protažená in Czech
Стройная пиранья in Russian
Slender piranha in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Kner, R. (1858). Zur Familie der Characinen. <em>Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe.</em> 32 (22): 163-168.
  3. 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
  4. Mojica, J. I., G. Galvis, F. Arbeláez, M. Santos, S. Vejarano, E. Prieto-Piraquive, M. Arce, P. Sánchez-Duarte, C. Castellanos, A. Gutiérrez, S.R. Duque, J. Lobón-Cerviá & C. Granado-Lorencio. 2005. Peces de la cuenca del río Amazonas en Colombia: Región de Leticia. Biota Colombiana 6 (2): 191-210. | Bogotá-Gregory, J. D., C. DoNascimiento, F. C. T. Lima, A. Acosta-Santos, F. A. Villa-Navarro, A. Urbano-Bonilla, J. I. Mojica & E. Agudelo Córdoba. 2022. Fishes from the Colombian Amazonia region: species composition from the river systems within the rainforest biome. Biota Neotropica 22 (4): e20221392. https://doi.org/10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2022-1392
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