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Tiger Fish

Hoplias microlepis

Classification

Hoplias microlepis, the smallscale wolffish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Erythrinidae, the trahiras. This species is found in northwestern South America and in southern Central America. Taxonomy Hoplias microlepis was first formally described as Macrodon microlepis in 1864 by the German-born British herpetologist and ichthyologist Albert Günther with its type locality given as Rio Chagres in Panama.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 3