Animalia > Chordata > Characiformes > Erythrinidae > Hoplias > Hoplias malabaricus

Hoplias malabaricus (Trahira; Tigerfish; Tiger characin; Tararura; Haimara; Guabine)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hoplias malabaricus, also known as the Wolf Fish, Tiger Fish or Trahira, is a predatory Central and South American freshwater ray finned fish of the Characin family Erythrinidae.
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Infraspecies

Macrodon malabaricus var. malabaricus

Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Amazonas High Andes Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru Neotropic Montane Freshwaters    
Guianas Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers    
Mamore - Madre de Dios Piedmont Bolivia, Brazil, Peru Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers    
Orinoco Guiana Shield Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers    
Orinoco Llanos Colombia, Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Floodplain Rivers and Wetland Complexes    

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, 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
♦ 2Feeding of Hoplias malabaricus in the wetlands of Dulce river (Córdoba, Argentina), María de los Angeles Bistoni, José Gustavo Haro & Mercedes Gutiérrez, Hydrobiologia 316: 103-107, 1995.
♦ 3Alimentação de Hoplias aff. malabaricus (Bloch, 1794) e Oligosarcus robustus Menezes, 1969 em uma lagoa sob influência estuarina, Pelotas, RS, Fabiano Corrêa, Sérgio Renato Noguez Piedras, Biotemas, 22 (3): 121-128, setembro de 2009
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Gibson, 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