Arapaima gigas, also known as pirarucu or simply arapaima, is a species of arapaima native to the basin of the Amazon River. Once believed to be the sole...
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(Agassiz's arapaima) Arapaima gigas (Schinz, 1822) (pirarucu, arapaima) Arapaima leptosoma D. J. Stewart, 2013 (slender arapaima; Solimoes arapaima) Arapaima mapae...
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up in the aquarium trade, although they are usually misidentified as Arapaima gigas. It has a deep caudal peduncle relative to other species in its genus...
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monotypic genus Arapaima, whose name derives from the Tupi-Guyarana indigenous name for Arapaima gigas. A. gigas in aquarium A. gigas in aquarium H. niloticus...
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(Animalia) Anopheles gigas Apagomerina gigas Arapaima gigas, arapaima, pirarucu, or paiche, a freshwater fish Archispirostreptus gigas (synonym), the giant...
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Potamotrygonidae). PanamJAS 5(3): 454–464. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Arapaima gigas". FishBase. September 2017 version. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds...
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at just 2 centimetres (0.79 in) long, while the largest, the arapaima (Arapaima gigas), reaches as much as 2.5 metres (8.2 ft). Phylogeny based on the...
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family of large-sized freshwater fish, which includes the arowanas and arapaima. They are commonly known as bonytongues. The family contains two extant...
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a group of bony fish in the Teleostei. A notable member is the arapaima (Arapaima gigas), the largest freshwater fish in South America and one of the largest...
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the gills and swim bladder in juvenile Amazonian air-breathing fish, Arapaima gigas". Micron. 43 (9): 961–970. doi:10.1016/j.micron.2012.03.018. ISSN 1878-4291...
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