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Colossoma macropomum (Tambaqui; Pacu; Cachama; Blackfin pacu)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) is a freshwater species of serrasalmid. It is also known by the names black pacu, black-finned pacu, giant pacu, cachama, gamitana, and sometimes as pacu (a name used for several other related species).
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  3.542 feet (108 cm)
Migration [2]  Potamodromous
Diet [2]  Omnivore, Detritivore

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Hawaiian Islands United States Oceania Oceanic Islands    

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve State Sustainable Development Reserve VI 3260792 Amazonas, Brazil  
Manú National Park II 4213523 Cusco, Peru  
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park II 4006523 Bolivia  
Reserva de la Biosfera de Yasuni Biosphere Reserve 4156313 Ecuador  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Amazona aestiva (Turquoise-fronted Amazon)1
Brotogeris chiriri (Yellow-chevroned Parakeet)1
Mirogrex terraesanctae (Kinneret bleak)1

Consumers

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 3LIFE HISTORY AND MANAGEMENT OF THE TAMBAQUI (COLOSSOMA MACROPOMUM, CHARACIDAE); AN IMPORTANT AMAZONIAN FOOD FISH, Michael Goulding & Mírian Leal Carvalho, Revta bras. Zool., S Paulo 1(2); 107-133 30 xii.1982
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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