Animalia > Chordata > Characiformes > Serrasalmidae > Mylossoma > Mylossoma aureum

Mylossoma aureum (Silver dollar)

Synonyms: Myletes aureus; Myletes herniarius; Mylosomma ventriosa; Mylossoma ventriosa
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Wikipedia Abstract

Mylossoma aureum is a species of serrasalmid native to the Amazon and Orinoco Basins. This species grows to a length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in) TL. This species is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

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  
Reserva de la Biosfera de Yasuni Biosphere Reserve 4156313 Ecuador  

Prey / Diet

Echinochloa polystachya (creeping rivergrass)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Dadaytrema oxycephalum[3]
Microrchis megacotyle[3]
Pseudocladorchis cylindricus[3]

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
♦ 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.
♦ 3Gibson, 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