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Pygocentrus cariba (Orinoco piranha; Black spot piranha)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Pygocentrus cariba or black spot piranha is a species of piranha native to the Orinoco River basin lowlands and the Llanos region in Venezuela and Colombia. This species can reach a length of 27.9 centimetres (11.0 in) TL. It is popular as a game fish.
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Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Acestrorhynchus lacustris1
Plagioscion squamosissimus (South American silver croaker)1
Serrasalmus brandtii (White piranha)1
Serrasalmus irritans3

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Leptorhynchoides thecatus[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food Habits of Piranhas in the Low Llanos of Venezuela, Leo G. Nico; Donald C. Taphorn, Biotropica, Vol. 20, No. 4. (Dec., 1988), pp. 311-321.
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0