Biology:Myloplus lucienae
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Short description: Species of fish
| Myloplus lucienae | |
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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. lucienae
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| Binomial name | |
| Myloplus lucienae M. C. Andrade, Ota, Bastos & Jégu, 2016[1]
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Myloplus lucienae is a medium to large omnivorous fish of the family Serrasalmidae from Brazil. It and can grow to a length of 33.8 cm (13.3 in).[2]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Luciene Maria Kassar Borges, in recognition for her attempt in a 1986 Ph.D. dissertation to organize the knowledge of the herbivorous Serrasalmidae from the Rio Negro basin.[3]
References
- ↑ Andrade, M.C., Ota, R.P., Bastos, D.A. & Jégu, M. (2016): A new large Myloplus Gill 1896 from rio Negro basin, Brazilian Amazon (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae). Zootaxa, 4205 (6): 571–580.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Myloplus lucienae" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ↑ "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. 22 September 2018. http://www.etyfish.org/characiformes2/.
Wikidata ☰ Q46638144 entry
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