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Definition of Arapaimas

Arapaima
Arapaima A`ra*pai"ma, n. [Prob. native name.] (Zo["o]l.) A large fresh-water food fish of South America.

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- The arapaima, pirarucu, or paiche is any large species of bonytongue in the genus Arapaima native to the Amazon and Essequibo basins of South America....
- Arapaima gigas, also known as pirarucu or simply arapaima, is a species of arapaima native to the basin of the Amazon River. Once believed to be the sole...
- Arapaima leptosoma is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Brazil. It is a member of the arapaimas, a genus of air-breathing fish that contains some...
- Arapaima ag****izii is a species of freshwater fish endemic to Brazil. It is a member of the arapaimas, a genus of air-breathing fish that contains some...
- is known only from Lago do Amapá in Amapá State. It is a member of the arapaimas, a genus of air-breathing fish that contains some of the world's largest...
- garden's east are two lakes which contains Arapaimas gigas from the Amazon river. Tourists can feed the Arapaimas gigas. Nongnooch contains the Nongnooch...
- belonging to the family Osteoglossidae. It includes the South American arapaimas of the Amazon and Essequibo basins and the African arowana (Heterotis...
- being called an "arowana", the African arowana is more closely related to arapaimas, the only other members in the subfamily Arapaiminae, than the South American...
- trait still present in Holostei (bowfins and gars). In some fish like the arapaima, the swim bladder has been modified for breathing air again, and in other...
- plants. Among these wildlife categories the most notably famous are the Arapaima, which is the world's largest scaled freshwater fish; the giant anteater...