pirarucu (Arapaima gigas)

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Arapaima gigas
Date 1908
Source Guide to the Gallery of Fishes http://www.archive.org/details/guidetogalleryof08brit
Author Lankester Edwin Ray
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arapaima_gigas1.jpg

The pirarucu or giant arapaima (Arapaima gigas) is a species of arapaima native to the basin of the Amazon River. It is among the largest freshwater fish. Arapaima gigas is an obligate air-breather and needs to come to the surface regularly to gulp air.

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