Hoplias

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Characiformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Otomorpha Subcohors: Ostariophysi Sectio: Otophysa Ordo: Characiformes

Familia: Erythrinidae
Genus: Hoplias
Species: H. aimara – H. brasiliensis – H. lacerdae – H. malabaricus – H. mbigua – H. microcephalus – H. microlepis – H. patana – H. teres

Name

Hoplias Gill, 1903

Type species: Esox malabaricus Bloch, 1794

Etymology: From Greek hoplos (= 'armor'), referring to “defensive armature” of “cranial shield-like surface as well as the offensive teeth”. (From The ETYFish project)

Synonyms

Macrodon Müller, 1843

References

Primary references

Gill, T.N. 1903. Note on the fish genera named Macrodon. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 26(1349): 1015–1016. BHL Reference page.
Müller, J.P. 1843. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der natürlichen Familien der Fische. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 9(1): 292–330. BHL Reference page. [See pp. 316–317, 321.]
Bloch, M.E. 1794. Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Berlin. Vol. 8: i–iv + 1–174, Pls. 361–396. BHL Reference page. [See p. 149, Pl. 392.]

Links

Hoplias and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Hoplias species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.