Hoplias
Genus of fishes
Hoplias genus of fish in the family Erythrinidae found in Central and South America .
Species
Hoplias malabaricus and its sharp teeth .There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:[ 1]
Hoplias aimara (Valenciennes , 1847) Hoplias australis Oyakawa & Mattox , 2009Hoplias brasiliensis (Spix & Agassiz , 1829) Hoplias curupira Oyakawa & Mattox , 2009Hoplias intermedius (Günther , 1864) Hoplias lacerdae A. Miranda-Ribeiro , 1908Hoplias malabaricus (Bloch , 1794) Wolf-fish, TraíraHoplias 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
^ Froese, Rainer ; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Hoplias " . FishBase ^ 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.
