Arapaima

Arapaima gigas

Taxonavigation: Osteoglossiformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Craniata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis/Superclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohort: Osteoglossocephala Cohort/Superordo: Osteoglossomorpha Ordo: Osteoglossiformes

Familia: Arapaimidae
Genus: Arapaima
Species: A. agassizii – A. arapaima – A. gigas – A. leptosoma – A. mapae

Name

Arapaima Müller, 1843

Sudis Cuvier, 1816: 180 Type: Sudis gigas Schinz, 1822. Type by subsequent monotypy.
Vastres Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1847

Deutsch: Arapaima
English: Arapaima, Pirarucu
Nederlands: Arapaima
português: Pirarucu
ไทย: ปลาช่อนยักษ์อเมซอน, ปลาอะราไพม่า

Lundberg, J.G.; Chernoff, B. 1992: A Miocene fossil of the Amazonian fish Arapaima (Teleostei, Arapaimidae) from the Magdalena River region of Colombia – biogeographic and evolutionary implications. Biotropica, 24(1): 2–14. JSTOR ZooBank
Müller, J.; 1843: Beiträge zur Kenntniss der natürlichen Familien der Fische. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 9: 292–330. BHL
Stewart, D. J.; 2013: Re-description of Arapaima agassizii (Valenciennes), a Rare Fish from Brazil (Osteoglossomorpha: Osteoglossidae). Copeia, 2013 (1): 38–51.

Arapaima and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes,
Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2019. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

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