Hoplias patana is a species of trahiras.Hoplias patana at www.fishbase.org. It is a freshwater fish which is known from Cayenne, French Guiana.Page 240, Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and Central America, by Roberto E. Reis, Sven O. Kullander, and Carl J. Ferraris. EDIPUCRS, 2003. / The maximum length recorded for this species is 39.4 centimetres.
It was originally described by Achille Valenciennes in 1847, under the genus Macrodon.Cuvier, G. and A. Valenciennes 1847 (May) [ref. 4883] Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome dix-neuvième. Suite du livre dix-neuvième. Brochets ou Lucioïdes. Livre vingtième. De quelques familles de Malacoptérygiens, intermédiaires entre les Brochets et les Clupes. Histoire naturelle des poissons. v. 19: i-xix + 1-544 + 6 pp., Pls. 554-590 [not 520-556]. It was listed as a valid species of Hoplias by Osvaldo Takeshi Oyakawa in 2003.Oyakawa, O.T. 2003 Erythrinidae (Trahiras). p. 238-240. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
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External links Hoplias patana at ITIS