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Silver piranha

Serrasalmus manueli

Classification

Serrasalmus manueli, the silver piranha or Manuel's piranha, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Serrasalmidae, which includes the pacus, piranhas and related fishes. This species is found in the basins of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in South America. Taxonomy Serrasalmus manueli was first formally described as Pygocentrus manueli in 1967 by the Venezuelan ichthyologists Agustín Fernández Yépez and Manuel Vicente Ramírez with its type locality given as the Río Paraguaza in the middle Orinoco River system, Venezuela.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 48