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genus Serrasalmus - piranhas

fish genus - any of various genus of fish

Characidae, family Characidae - tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America

caribe, pirana, piranha - small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals

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Piranhas of the genus Serrasalmus have been studied in a number of Brazilian rivers [18-24], although no data are available for the Araguari-Amapa basin.

Resource Partitioning between Two Piranhas (Serrasalmus gibbus and Serrasalmus rhombeus) in an Amazonian Reservoir

However, Lowe-McConnell (1999) mentioned that fish of the genus Serrasalmus present differences in the growth rate between the sexes.

Population dynamics of the yellow piranha Serrasalmus spilopleura Kner, 1858 (Characidae, Serrasalminae) in Amazonian floodplain lakes/Dinamica populacional da piranha amarela Serrasalmus spilopleura em lagos de varzea

cariba and the species of the genus Serrasalmus so far studied, in terms of the number and type of chromosomes, multiplicity of NORbearing chromosomes and the distribution of constitutive heterochromatin located in centromeric and telomeric position, reinforces the hypothesis of the close phylogenetic relationship between the genera Pygocentrus and Serrasalmus.

Cariotipo y regiones nucleolares organizadoras (nor) en Pygocentrus cariba (serrasalminae) de Caicara del Orinoco, Venezuela

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