''Hoplias patana'' is a species of trahiras.''Hoplias patana''
at www.fishbase.org. It is a

freshwater fish Freshwater fish are those that spend some or all of their lives in fresh water, such as rivers and lakes, with a salinity of less than 1.05%. These environments differ from marine conditions in many ways, especially the difference in levels of s ...

which is known from

Cayenne Cayenne (; ; gcr, Kayenn) is the capital city of French Guiana, an overseas region and Overseas department, department of France located in South America. The city stands on a former island at the mouth of the Cayenne River on the Atlantic Oc ...

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.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 Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist. Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. His study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology. ...

in 1847, under the genus '' Macrodon''.Cuvier, G. and A. Valenciennes 1847 (May) ef. 4883Histoire 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 ot 520-556 It was listed as a valid species of ''

Hoplias ''Hoplias'' is a genus of fish in the family Erythrinidae found in Central and South America. Species There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus: * '' Hoplias aimara'' (Valenciennes, 1847) * '' Hoplias australis'' Oyakawa & Mat ...

'' 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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''Hoplias patana''
at www.fishwise.co.za Erythrinidae Taxa named by Achille Valenciennes Fish described in 1847 {{Characiformes-stub