Hoplias malabaricus

This article is about the species of freshwater fish. For saltwater wolffish, see Anarhichadidae.

Trahira
Hoplias malabaricus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Erythrinidae
Genus: Hoplias
Species:
H. malabaricus
Binomial name
Hoplias malabaricus
(Bloch, 1794) 
Synonyms
  • Esox malabaricus Bloch, 1794
  • Macrodon malabaricus (Bloch, 1794)
  • Synodus tareira Bloch & Schneider, 1801
  • Synodus palustris Bloch & Schneider, 1801
  • Erythrinus trahira Agassiz, 1829
  • Erythrinus macrodon Spix & Agassiz, 1829
  • Macrodon tareira Valenciennes, 1847
  • Macrodon ferox Gill, 1858
  • Esox tararira Larrañaga, 1923

Hoplias malabaricus, also known as the wolf fish, tiger fish, guabine or trahira, is a predatory Central and South American freshwater ray-finned fish of the characiform family Erythrinidae.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.