Myloplus zorroi
| Myloplus zorroi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Serrasalmidae |
| Genus: | Myloplus |
| Species: | M. zorroi
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| Binomial name | |
| Myloplus zorroi | |
Myloplus zorroi is a medium to large omnivorous fish of the family Serrasalmidae from Brazil.[2]
Etymology
[edit]The fish is named in honor of Mauricio Camargo-Zorro, a researcher at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia in São Paulo.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Andrade, M.C., Jégu, M. & Giarrizzo, T. (2016): A new large species of Myloplus (Characiformes, Serrasalmidae) from the Rio Madeira basin, Brazil. ZooKeys, 571: 153–167.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Myloplus zorroi". FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families TARUMANIIDAE, ERYTHRINIDAE, PARODONTIDAE, CYNODONTIDAE, SERRASALMIDAE, HEMIODONTIDAE, ANOSTOMIDAE and CHILODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
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