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Pygocentrus nattereri
Wikipedia
The red-bellied piranha or red piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri) is a species of piranha native to South America, found in the Amazon River Basin, coastal rivers of northeastern Brazil, and the basins of the Paraguay and Paraná River|Paraná. The red-bellied piranha has a popular reputation as a ferocious predator, despite being primarily scavengers. As their name suggests, red-bellied piranhas have a reddish tinge to the belly when fully grown, although juveniles are a silver colour with darker spots. They grow to a maximum length of and a weight of . The way to distinguish males from females is that the female...
Genomics from NCBI
TaxId: 42514 Pygocentrus nattereri "red-bellied piranha" [bony fishes] Sequences: nucleotide, protein
Map from GBIF
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