pirarucu (Arapaima gigas)

Query: arapaima

Result: 13^th of 32

Resolution: 1750x875 File Size: 389047 Bytes Upload Date: 2017:08:17 15:35:46

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.

arapaima
13/32

^o^ Animal Pictures Archive for smart phones ^o^