Myloplus arnoldi
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| Myloplus arnoldi | |
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| Para, Brazil | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Characiformes |
| Family: | Serrasalmidae |
| Genus: | Myloplus |
| Species: | M. arnoldi |
| Binomial name | |
| Myloplus arnoldi Ahl, 1936 | |
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Myloplus arnoldi, Arnold's pacu or yellow fin red hook silver dollar, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Serrasalmidae, which includes the pacus and piranhas. This fish is endemic to Brazil.
Myloplus arnoldi was first formally described in 1936 by the German zoologist Ernst Ahl, with its type locality given as the Amazon River.[2] The genus Myloplus is classified in the subfamily Myleinae,[3] of the family Serrasalmidae,[4] which is classified in the suborder Characoidei of the order Characiformes.[5]
Myloplus sensu lato has been recovered as polyphyletic in some molecular phylogenetic studies, and M. arnoldi is not classified within Myloplus sensu stricto in these studies, although no new genus name has been proposed.[6]
Etymology
Myloplus arnoldi is classified within the genus Myloplus. This taxon was originally proposed as a subgenus of Myletes, this being a name which has been suppressed by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature as a synonym of Alestes. The proposer of this genus, Theodore Gill, did not explain its etymology. It may be a combination of mylo-, a reference to the disk-shaped body, and a prefix used for similarly-shaped fishes in the same family, with plus, which means "more", i.e., another Myleus-like genus. The specific name honours the German aquarist Johann Paul Arnold, who donated the type specimens to the Natural History Museum, Berlin.[7]