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The payara, Hydrolycus scomberoides, is a species of dogtooth tetra. This predatory fish is found in the Amazon Basin in tropical South America. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was the first of four species to be described in the genus Hydrolycus .
A typically reported maximum total length of this fish is 89 cm (2 ft 11 in), [2] but records show specimens up to 95 cm (3 ft 1 in) in Venezuela [4] and more than 100 cm (3.3 ft) in Brazil. [5] It typically weighs up to 8.5 kg (18 lb 12 oz), [ 2 ] but can reach almost 18 kg (40 lb). [ 5 ]
Sabretooth tetra, the Payara, Hydrolycus scomberoides, a species of gamefish in the Orinoco River in Venezuela and in the Amazon basin; Saber-toothed predator, several distantly related lineages of synapsids Thylacosmilus, a genus of sabre-toothed metatherian predators from the Miocene period
Pages in category "Fish of Venezuela" The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Amazon leaffish;
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Like other Hydrolycus species, H. tatauaia has long pointed canine teeth that are used to spear their prey, generally smaller fish. [5] The body and head are silvery, and there is a vertically elongated dark spot behind the opercle. The tail is reddish to orange. [3] [5] [6] The species name tatauaia is of Tupi origin and means "fire tail".
Hydrolycus is a genus of large dogtooth characins from tropical South America, where found in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, as well as rivers of the Guianas. [1] The genus includes the largest dogtooth characins, reaching up to 1.17 m (3.8 ft) in length. [1]
Venezuela hosts a total of 1,417 bird species, more than 351 mammals, 341 reptiles, 315 amphibians and more than 2,000 freshwater and marine fishes. [1] Invertebrates groups have not been inventoried exhaustively, but among the well known groups there are around 900 species of marine molluscs , 1,600 butterflies , over 120 dung beetles species ...