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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