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Boulengerella lucius (Pirapucu; Golden pike-characin)

Synonyms: Boulengerella lucia; Hydrocynus lucius; Hydrocyon lucius; Xiphostoma lucius
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Orinoco Guiana Shield Venezuela Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers    

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Boulengerella cuvieri (Pike characin)9
Cichla orinocensis (Cichlid)6
Cichla temensis (Painted pavon)5
Crenicichla lugubris (Spottail pike cichlid)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Genolopa magnacirrus[2]
Paraproctotrema delicatum[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Gape size influences seasonal patterns of piscivore diets in three Neotropical rivers, Carmen G. Montaña, Craig A. Layman and Kirk O. Winemiller, Neotropical Ichthyology, 9(3): 647-655, 2011
♦ 2Gibson, 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
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