Hoplias is a genus of fish in the family Erythrinidae found in Central and South America.
| Hoplias | |
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| Hoplias malabaricus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Erythrinidae |
| Genus: | Hoplias T. N. Gill, 1903 |
Species
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There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Hoplias aimara (Valenciennes, 1847)
- Hoplias australis Oyakawa & Mattox, 2009
- Hoplias brasiliensis (Spix & Agassiz, 1829)
- Hoplias curupira Oyakawa & Mattox, 2009
- Hoplias intermedius (Günther, 1864)
- Hoplias lacerdae A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1908
- Hoplias malabaricus (Bloch, 1794) Wolf-fish, Traíra
- Hoplias mbigua Azpelicueta, Benítez, Aichino & Méndez, 2015 [2]
- Hoplias microcephalus (Agassiz, 1829)
- Hoplias microlepis (Günther, 1864) [3]
- Hoplias misionera Rosso, Mabragaña, González-Castro, Delpiani, Avigliano, Schenone & Díaz de Astarloa, 2016 [4]
- Hoplias patana (Valenciennes, 1847)
- Hoplias teres (Valenciennes, 1847)
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Hoplias". FishBase. June 2016 version.
- ^ Azpelicueta, M.d.l.M., Benítez, M.F., Aichino, D.R. & Mendez, C.M.D. (2015): A new species of the genus Hoplias (Characiformes, Erythrinidae), a tararira from the lower Paraná River, in Misiones, Argentina. Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine Acta zoológica lilloana, 59 (1-2): 71–82.
- ^ Mattox, G.M.T., Bifi, A.G. & Oyakawa, O.T. (2014): Taxonomic study of Hoplias microlepis (Günther, 1864), a trans-Andean species of trahiras (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Erythrinidae). Neotropical Ichthyology, 12 (2): 343–352.
- ^ Rosso, J.J., Mabragaña, E., González-Castro, M., Delpiani, M.S., Avigliano, E., Schenone, N. & Díaz de Astarloa, J.M. (2016): A new species of the Hoplias malabaricus species complex (Characiformes: Erythrinidae) from the La Plata River basin. Cybium, 40 (3): 199-208.