| Hoplias microlepis | |
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| Paralectotype at the Natural History Museum, London. | |
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| Illustration from Biologia Centrali-Americana . | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Erythrinidae |
| Genus: | Hoplias |
| Species: | H. microlepis |
| Binomial name | |
| Hoplias microlepis (Günther, 1864) | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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Hoplias microlepis is a species of trahira found in Central and South America. [2]
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Tropidophorus microlepis, the small-scaled water skink, is a species of skink found in Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand.
Paralaudakia microlepis, the smallscaled rock agama, is an agamid lizard found in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan.
Ptereleotris microlepis is a species of the fish is that lives in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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