Hoplias

Hoplias
Hoplias malabaricus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Characiformes
Family:	Erythrinidae
Genus:	Hoplias T. N. Gill, 1903

Hoplias is a genus of fish in the family Erythrinidae found in Central and South America.

Species

Hoplias malabaricus and its sharp teeth.

There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus: ^[1]

• Hoplias aimara (Valenciennes, 1847)
• Hoplias australis (Oyakawa & Mattox, 2009)
• Hoplias brasiliensis (Spix & Agassiz, 1829)
• Hoplias curupira (Oyakawa & Mattox, 2009)
• Hoplias intermedius (Günther, 1864)
• Hoplias lacerdae (A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1908)
• Hoplias malabaricus (Bloch, 1794) Wolf-fish, Traíra
• Hoplias mbigua (Azpelicueta, Benítez, Aichino & Méndez, 2015) ^[2]
• Hoplias microcephalus (Agassiz, 1829)
• Hoplias microlepis (Günther, 1864) ^[3]
• Hoplias misionera (Rosso, Mabragaña, González-Castro, Delpiani, Avigliano, Schenone & Díaz de Astarloa, 2016) ^[4]
• Hoplias patana (Valenciennes, 1847)
• Hoplias teres (Valenciennes, 1847)

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Hoplias". FishBase . June 2016 version.
2. Azpelicueta, M.d.l.M., Benítez, M.F., Aichino, D.R. & Mendez, C.M.D. (2015): A new species of the genus Hoplias (Characiformes, Erythrinidae), a tararira from the lower Paraná River, in Misiones, Argentina. Archived 2015-11-17 at the Wayback Machine Acta zoológica lilloana, 59 (1-2): 71–82.
3. Mattox, G.M.T., Bifi, A.G. & Oyakawa, O.T. (2014): Taxonomic study of Hoplias microlepis (Günther, 1864), a trans-Andean species of trahiras (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Erythrinidae). Neotropical Ichthyology, 12 (2): 343–352.
4. Rosso, J.J., Mabragaña, E., González-Castro, M., Delpiani, M.S., Avigliano, E., Schenone, N. & Díaz de Astarloa, J.M. (2016): A new species of the Hoplias malabaricus species complex (Characiformes: Erythrinidae) from the La Plata River basin. Cybium, 40 (3): 199-208.