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View Mode Genus Piaractus Eigenmann 1903   Genus Genus   Hierarchy Hierarchy   Original Genus Original Genus   Current Genus Current Genus   Name History Name History   Genus   Piaractus AuthorWI   Eigenmann [C. H.] AuthorNI   Eigenmann Qualification   --- Year   1903 Status   Valid Gender   masculine Class   Osteichthyes Order   Characiformes Family   Serrasalmidae Subfamily   --- Tribe   --- Original Genus   Piaractus Original AuthorWI   Eigenmann [C. H.] Original AuthorNI   Eigenmann Original Family   Serrasalmidae Original Sub Family   --- --- Original Year   1903 Gender   masculine Type Species   Myletes brachypomus Type Species AuthorWI   Cuvier [G.] Type Species AuthorNI   Cuvier Type Species Qualification   --- Type Species Year   1817 Type Designation   Type by original designation (also monotypic). Current Genus   Piaractus Current AuthorWI   Eigenmann [C. H.] Current AuthorNI   Eigenmann Current Year   1903 Current Family   Serrasalmidae Current Summary   Valid as Piaractus  Eigenmann 1903. Serrasalmidae.   Name History   • Synonym of Colossoma  Eigenmann & Kennedy 1903, but a valid subgenus Piaractus  -- (Géry 1976:50 [ref. 14199], Géry 1977:255 [ref. 1597]). • Valid as Piaractus  Eigenmann 1903 -- (Géry 1986:97 [ref. 6012], Géry et al. 1987:441 [ref. 6001], Machado-Allison 1986:1 [ref. 12757], Taphorn 1992:298 [ref. 23654], Britski et al. 1999:62 [ref. 24147], Jégu in Reis et al. 2003:187 [ref. 27061], Mirande 2009:6 [ref. 30267] in Serrasalmidae, Mirande 2010:471 [ref. 31006], Oliveira et al. 2011:11 [ref. 31685]). Loading…