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It grows to a length of 2.8 m. The largest Amazon piraĆba are 2 ā 2.5 m long and weigh more than 150 kg 330lbs
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498:"Kumakuma (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum) Ecological Risk Screening Summary"
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447:"Cat-eLog - Pimelodidae - Brachyplatystoma vaillantii"
359:and commercial fish. They are generally obligate
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161:Brachyplatystoma filamentosum
36:Brachyplatystoma filamentosum
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27:Very large Amazon catfish
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187:Brachyplatystoma goeldii
882:Freshwater fish of Peru
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902:Fish described in 1819
791:-related article is a
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192:Pimelodus filamentosus
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315:entirely piscivorous
212:Sorubimichthys gigas
143:B. filamentosum
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306:Description
260:Pimelodidae
119:Pimelodidae
836:Categories
510:2020-06-02
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397:References
361:piscivores
334:freshwater
262:and genus
357:game fish
284:estuaries
137:Species:
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69:Eukaryota
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650:FishBase
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383:piraiba
372:aquaria
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325:Ecology
296:Guianas
292:Orinoco
272:Orinoco
256:catfish
252:species
250:, is a
247:lau lau
229:piraĆba
171:, 1819)
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