Piaractus brachypomus

Piaractus brachypomus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Characiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes 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: Piaractus brachypomus

Name

Piaractus brachypomus (Cuvier, 1818)

Holotype (unique): MNHN A-8627

Type locality: Brazil

Etymology: From brachy (= short), and pomum (= operculum), referring to shorter operculum compared to Colossoma macropomum. From: The ETYFish Project.

Synonyms

• Myletes brachypomus Cuvier, 1818
• Myletes paco Humboldt in Humboldt & Valenciennes, 1821
• Myletes bidens Spix & Agassiz, 1829
• Wateina fowleri Amaral Campos, 1946

References

• Cuvier, G. 1818. Sur les poissons du sous-genre Mylètes. Mémoires du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle 4: 444–456, Pls. 21–22. BHL Reference page. 
• Humboldt, F.H.A. von & Valenciennes, A. 1821. Recherches sur les poissons fluviatiles de l'Amérique Équinoxiale. In: Voyage de Humboldt et Bonpland, Deuxième partie. Observations de Zoologie et d'Anatomie comparée. Paris. v. 2 (Title page 1833): 145–216, Pls. 45–52. Reference page. 
• Spix, J.B. von & Agassiz, J.L.R. 1829. Selecta genera et species piscium quos in itinere per Brasiliam annos MDCCCXVII–MDCCCXX jussu et auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I… colleget et pingendso curavit Dr J. B. de Spix. Monachii. Part 1: i–xvi + i–ii + 1–82, Pls. 1–48; Part 2: 83–138, Pls. 49–101. BHL Reference page. 
• Amaral Campos, A. 1940. Novo gênero e novas espécies de Caracídios do baixo Amazonas. Papéis avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia 7: 217–220. BHL
• Escobar L., M.D., Andrade-López, J., Farias, I.P. & Hrbek, T. 2015. Delimiting Evolutionarily Significant Units of the Fish, Piaractus brachypomus (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae), from the Orinoco and Amazon River Basins with Insight on Routes of Historical Connectivity. Journal of Heredity 106(S1): 428–438. DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esv047 Reference page. 

Links

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

Vernacular names

• English: Red-bellied Pacu, Pirapitinga
• español: Paco
• português: Pirapitinga, Caranha