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Elegant-fin Piranha
Catoprion absconditus
Catopruion absconditus, which shares the common name wimple piranha with its congener C. mento, is a lepidophagous species of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Serrasalmidae, which includes the pacus, piranhas and related fishes. This fish is found in South America in the central and eastern Amazon river system of Brazil and in tributaries of the Essequibo in Guyana.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1313539.