Myloplus lucienae is a medium to large omnivorous fish of the family Serrasalmidae from Brazil. It and can grow to a length of 33.8 cm (13.3 in).[2]

Myloplus lucienae
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Characiformes
Family: Serrasalmidae
Genus: Myloplus
Species:
M. lucienae
Binomial name
Myloplus lucienae

Etymology

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The fish is named in honor of Luciene Maria Kassar Borges, in recognition for her attempt in a 1986 Ph.D. dissertation to organize the knowledge of the herbivorous Serrasalmidae from the Rio Negro basin.[3]


References

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  1. ^ Andrade, M.C., Ota, R.P., Bastos, D.A. & Jégu, M. (2016): A new large Myloplus Gill 1896 from rio Negro basin, Brazilian Amazon (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae). Zootaxa, 4205 (6): 571–580.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Myloplus lucienae". FishBase. February 2015 version.
  3. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CHARACIFORMES: Families TARUMANIIDAE, ERYTHRINIDAE, PARODONTIDAE, CYNODONTIDAE, SERRASALMIDAE, HEMIODONTIDAE, ANOSTOMIDAE and CHILODONTIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 23 February 2022.