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Piaractus mesopotamicus (Holmberg, 1887)

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> Characiformes (Characins) > Serrasalmidae (Piranhas and pacus) > Colossomatinae
Etymology: Piaractus: Greek, piar = fat, the side with grease of a body + Greek, aktos , ago = to carry.

Issue
See Géry (1986: 102) for more detail.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

; acqua dolce demersale; potamodromo (Ref. 51243). Subtropical; 15°S - 38°S, 66°W - 42°W

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Point map | Introduzioni | Faunafri

South America: Paraguay-Paraná River basin.

Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 40.5 cm SL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 39031); peso massimo pubblicato: 20.0 kg (Ref. 32894)

Short description Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria

Dark grey to silver dorsally and laterally and white ventrally with a yellow breast.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Invades the flooded forests to feed on nuts and seeds which fall from trees (Ref. 32894). Reaches around 50.0 cm SL (Ref. 81048).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturities | Riproduzione | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larve

Assuming standard characid reproduction. Replace ASAP.

Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Lovshin, L.L., 1995. The colossomids. p. 153-159. In C.E. Nash and A.J. Novotny (eds.) World animal science: production of aquatic animals: fishes. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Ref. 32894)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Near Threatened (NT) (A2bcde); Date assessed: 21 December 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesca: commerciale; Acquacoltura: commerciale
FAO - Aquaculture systems: production; ; Publication: search | FishSource |

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E-book | Giuda pratica | Generatore frequenze di lunghezza | Strumento Parametri Biologici | Mappa dei ritrovamenti | Classification Tree | Catch-MSY |

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Fonti Internet

AFORO (otoliths) | Alien/Invasive Species database | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: Genere, Specie | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Aquaculture systems: production; ; Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Database Nazionali | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, ricerca | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.7500   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.02455 (0.01070 - 0.05632), b=3.00 (2.80 - 3.20), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  2.0   ±0.00 se; based on food items.
Resilienza (Ref. 120179):  Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate vulnerability (39 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Unknown.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 76.1 [25.1, 186.6] mg/100g; Iron = 1.76 [0.87, 4.38] mg/100g; Protein = 18.7 [16.6, 21.0] %; Omega3 = 0.522 [0.209, 1.343] g/100g; Selenium = 42.4 [16.5, 105.7] μg/100g; VitaminA = 8.7 [2.3, 31.5] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.13 [0.75, 1.83] mg/100g (wet weight);