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Acnodon normani Gosline, 1951

Description

Common Names

  • Sheep-pacu , English , USA
  • Lammaspaku , Finnish , Finland
  • Seeprapaku , Finnish , Finland
  • Schafpacu , German , Germany
  • Pacu , Portuguese , Brazil

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Characiformes

    Family: Serrasalmidae

    Genus: Acnodon

    Species: Acnodon normani Gosline, 1951

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • South America: Amazon, Xingu and Tocantins River basins in Brazil.

    • Biology

    Life cycle and mating behavior

    Habitat

    benthopelagic