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Myloplus rhomboidalis (Pacu)

Synonyms: Myletes latus; Myletes rhomboidalis; Myleus rhomboidalis; Prosomyleus rhomboidalis; Salmo pacupeba
Language: Creole, French; Djuka; Galibi; Mandarin Chinese; Oyampi; Palicur; Portuguese; Saramaccan; Spanish; Wayana

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Guianas Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Upland Rivers    

Prey / Diet

Crudia oblonga[1]
Euterpe oleracea (Assai palm)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Notozothecium bethae[2]
Pseudocladorchis cylindricus[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1THE FOOD HABITS OF THREE ALLOCHTHONOUS FEEDING CHARACOIDS IN FRENCH GUIANA, Boujard T., Sabatier D., Rojas-Beltran R., Prevost M.F., Renno Jean-François, Rev. Ecol. (Terre Vie),vol. 45, 1990 p. 247-258
♦ 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