Animalia > Chordata > Characiformes > Serrasalmidae > Serrasalmus > Serrasalmus rhombeus

Serrasalmus rhombeus (Yellow piranha; White piranha; Spotted piranha; Redeye piranha; Piranha; Caribe amarillo; Black piranha)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Serrasalmus rhombeus (Redeye Piranha, and see ), is a fish of the piranha family Serrasalmidae found in South America in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins, the north and eastern Guiana Shield rivers, and northeastern Brazilian coastal rivers. Its length is up to 41.5 cm. These piranhas live in very diverse habitats ranging from soft blackwater, to hard whitewater areas in the Amazon, and as such, are very tolerant of differing water chemistry.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  17 inches (42 cm)
Diet [2]  Carnivore

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Astyanax bimaculatus (Twospot astyanax)[3]
Campomanesia lineatifolia[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Hoplias malabaricus (Trahira)1
Plagioscion squamosissimus (South American silver croaker)1
Puma yagouaroundi (Jaguarundi)1
Serrasalmus brandtii (White piranha)1

Predators

Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum (Tiger sorubim)[5]

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
♦ 3Food 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.
♦ 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.
♦ 5Dietary segregation among large catfishes of the Apure and Arauca Rivers, Venezuela, A. BARBARINO DUQUE AND K. O. WINEMILLER, Journal of Fish Biology (2003) 63, 410–427
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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