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nattereri, Pygocentrus Kner [R.] 1858:166 [6] [Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe v. 32 (no. 22); ref. 18871] Cuiabá and Mato Grosso, Brazil. Syntypes: NMW 10585-86 (1, 1), ?16167 (1, dry). Also appeared in Kner 1860:36 [p. 28 in separate], Pl. 3 (fig. 8) [ref. 7130] as new. •Valid as Serrasalmus nattereri (Kner 1858) -- (Ovchynnyk 1967:30 [ref. 37559], Géry 1972:239 [ref. 1594], Ortega & Vari 1986:9 [ref. 9708], Gómez & Chebez 1996:51 [ref. 23791]). •Valid as Pygocentrus nattereri Kner 1858 -- (Fink 1993:672 [ref. 20937] with type locality comments, Chang & Ortega 1995:5 [ref. 24302], Fink & Zelditch 1997:179 [ref. 22686], Britski et al. 1999:62 [ref. 24147], Fuller et al. 1999:189 [ref. 25838], Keith et al. 2000:14 [ref. 24547], Camargo & Isaac 2001:139 [ref. 27639], Jégu in Reis et al. 2003:189 [ref. 27061], López et al. 2003:32 [ref. 27366], Menni 2004:78 [ref. 28131], Barriga Salazar 2014:108 [ref. 35745], Litz & Koerber 2014:10 [ref. 33622], Ramos et al. 2014:4 [ref. 35321], Sarmiento et al. 2014:92, 187 [ref. 35004], Bertaco et al. 2016:415 [ref. 34561], Çiçek et al. 2015:149 [ref. 35151], Melo et al. 2016:134 [ref. 34701], Melo et al. 2016:374 [ref. 35317], Mirande & Koerber 2015:16 [ref. 35117], Nión et al. 2016:28 [ref. 35565] with author as (Kner 1858), Petry et al. 2016:303 [ref. 34966], DoNascimiento et al. 2017:37 [ref. 35633], Koerber et al. 2017:23 [ref. 35267], Dickens 2019:166 [ref. 37135], Lorenzoni et al. 2019:251 [ref. 37108], Careaga et al. 2020:76 [ref. 37774], Silvano et al. 2020:182 [ref. 38133], Meza-Vargas et al. 2021:17 [ref. 39298], Chuctaya et al. 2022:31 [ref. 42137], Çiçek et al. 2022:4 [ref. 38985], Koerber et al. 2022:19 [ref. 39235], Taphorn et al. 2022:29 [ref. 41297], Jamandre 2023:163 [ref. 40455], Loureiro et al. 2023:38 [ref. 40506], Nagy et al. 2023:357 [ref. 40348], Vieira et al. 2023:18 [ref. 40759], Limeira-Filho et al. 2024:6 [ref. 41573], Ota et al. 2024:420 [ref. 40817], Vieira-Guimarães et al. 2024:57 [ref. 41258], Gowert et al. 2025:2 [ref. 42286], Iftime & Oţel 2025:44 [ref. 42600]). Current status: Valid as Pygocentrus nattereri Kner 1858. Serrasalmidae: Serrasalminae. Distribution: South America: Amazon River basin, Paraguay-Paraná River basin, northeastern Brazilian coastal rivers and Essequibo River basin (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay). Introduced in southeastern Brazil, Italy, Romania and Turkey. IUCN (2024): Least Concern. Habitat: freshwater.


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