Piaractus

Piaractus brachypomus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Characiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Characiformes

Familia: Serrasalmidae
Genus: Piaractus
Species: P. brachypomus – P. mesopotamicus

Name

Piaractus Eigenmann, 1903

• Type species: Myletes brachypomus Cuvier, 1818

Etymology: From piar (= fat), and actinos (= ray), referring to rayed adipose fin. From: The ETYFish Project

Synonyms

• Reganina Fowler, 1907
• Waiteina (subgenus of Colossoma) Fowler, 1907

References

• Piaractus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Piaractus species list in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Piaractus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).