Scleropages
Sign in to saveScleropages, the Asia-Pacific arowanas, is a genus of fish in the family Osteoglossidae found in Asia and Australia. All of these species are carnivorous and have great jumping ability. Fossil evidence supports their former presence in Europe & Africa.
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Vinony's link graph records 67 inbound references to Scleropages, and connects out to Asian arowana, China and Australia.
It sits within the topics Extant Selandian first appearances, Freshwater fish genera and Scleropages.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderOsteoglossiformes
- FamilyOsteoglossidae
Scleropages est un genre de poissons téléostéens de la famille des Osteoglossidae.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 28
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Osteoglossidae
- Collections
- UWFC, UMMZ, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, UCMP, USNM, LACM
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Thailand, Unknown Or Invalid
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Osteoglossidae
- Image
- Arowana.jpg
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- Commons category
- Scleropages
- taxon name
- Scleropages
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Scleropages
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Evolution
- Species
- Phylogeny
- References
Scleropages, the Asia-Pacific arowanas, is a genus of fish in the family Osteoglossidae found in Asia and Australia. All of these species are carnivorous and have great jumping ability. Fossil evidence supports their former presence in Europe & Africa.
== Taxonomy == These species are highly valued as aquarium fish, particularly by those from Asian cultures. In 2003, a study redescribed several naturally occurring color varieties of S. formosus into four separate species. The majority of researchers dispute these redescriptions, arguing that the published data are insufficient to justify recognizing more than one Southeast Asian species of Scleropages and that divergent haplotypes used to distinguish the color strains into isolated species were found within a single color strain, contradicting the findings. They are considered monotypic, consisting of closely related haplotypes based on color.
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