''Hoplias'' is a

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in the

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Erythrinidae The Erythrinidae are a family of fishes found in rivers and other freshwater habitats from Costa Rica south as far as Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the s ...

found in Central and

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Species

There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus: * '' Hoplias aimara'' (

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, 1847) * '' Hoplias australis'' Oyakawa & Mattox, 2009 * '' Hoplias brasiliensis'' (

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& Agassiz, 1829) * '' Hoplias curupira'' Oyakawa & Mattox, 2009 * '' Hoplias intermedius'' ( Günther, 1864) * '' Hoplias lacerdae'' A. Miranda-Ribeiro, 1908 * '' Hoplias malabaricus'' ( Bloch, 1794) Wolf-fish, Traíra * '' Hoplias mbigua'' Azpelicueta, Benítez, Aichino &

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, 2015 Azpelicueta, M.d.l.M., Benítez, M.F., Aichino, D.R. & Mendez, C.M.D. (2015)
A new species of the genus ''Hoplias'' (Characiformes, Erythrinidae), a tararira from the lower Paraná River, in Misiones, Argentina.
''Acta zoológica lilloana, 59 (1-2): 71–82.'' * '' Hoplias microcephalus'' ( Agassiz, 1829) * '' Hoplias microlepis'' ( Günther, 1864) Mattox, G.M.T., Bifi, A.G. & Oyakawa, O.T. (2014)
Taxonomic study of ''Hoplias microlepis'' (Günther, 1864), a trans-Andean species of trahiras (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Erythrinidae).
''Neotropical Ichthyology, 12 (2): 343–352.'' * '' Hoplias misionera''

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, Mabragaña, González-Castro, Delpiani, Avigliano, Schenone & Díaz de Astarloa, 2016 Rosso, J.J., Mabragaña, E., González-Castro, M., Delpiani, M.S., Avigliano, E., Schenone, N. & Díaz de Astarloa, J.M. (2016): A new species of the ''Hoplias malabaricus'' species complex (Characiformes: Erythrinidae) from the La Plata River basin. ''Cybium, 40 (3): 199-208.'' * '' Hoplias patana'' (

, 1847) * '' Hoplias teres'' (

, 1847)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q14935659 Erythrinidae Fish of South America Taxa named by Theodore Gill