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Mylossoma duriventre (Silver Dollar fish; silver mylossoma)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Mylossoma duriventre, the silver mylossoma, is a species of freshwater serrasalmid fish endemic to tropical South America. It grows to a maximum length of about 20 cm (8 in) and a weight of about 1 kg (2.2 lb). It is the subject of a local fishery, being known as palu in Brazil and palometa in Venezuela.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Predators

Phractocephalus hemioliopterus (Redtail catfish)[2]
Pseudoplatystoma reticulatum (Tiger shovelnose catfish)[2]
Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum (Tiger sorubim)[2]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Anacanthorus paraspathulatus[3]
Echinorhynchus salobrensis[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
♦ 2Dietary 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
♦ 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