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Southern Wolffish

Hoplias australis

Classification

Hoplias australis is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Erythrinidae, the trahiras. This species is found in South America. Taxonomy Hoplias australis was first formally described in 2009 by the Brazilian ichthyologists Osvaldo Takeshi Oyakawa and George Mendes Taliaferro Mattox with its type locality given as Rio das Antas, rio do Ouro drainage, on Formosa do Sul-Irati road, Formosa do Sul at 26°38'55"S, 52°48'05"W in the Uruguay River basin in Santa Catarina State, Brazil.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 33Argentina · 1