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Juveniles and subadults may be found in brackish water of river mouths. The piraiba brachyplatystoma filamentosum breeding grounds in the amazon the piraiba is one of the largest freshwater fish in the world, reaching up to 360 cm in length and 200 kg in weight. Pyrrhulina filamentosa, hatchet fishes carnegiella strigata, gasteropelecus. An inventory of coastal freshwater fishes from amapa highlighting. Freshwater fish distribution pdf free download epdf. These two species are the only members of the genus in which juveniles exhibit dark body spots or blotches both on and above the lateral line, these being relatively larger in b. Mbuna marcus aquariums, cichlids and more 2,324,767 views. Laulao catfish brachyplatystoma vaillanti the free. Smithsonian institution, national museum of natural history, department of vertebrate. At the end of the 1970s, the species accounted for 94% of fish landings catch in the amazon region, while in 2005 it represented just 5%.