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Fish guide prioritized for South America.

Browse published fish with real images, identification points, water type, and cautious local context. Region changes the order, not the search scope.

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Amazon basin fish, introduced tilapia, peacock bass, carp, and coastal targets are prioritized.

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Arapaima reference image
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Arapaima

Arapaima gigas

Arapaima gigas is one of the world’s largest freshwater fish, native to the Amazon Basin. It breathes air and often rolls or gulps at the surface, making it easy to notice but very challenging to land.

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Common carp swimming near the bottom
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Carpa-comum

Cyprinus carpio

Carpa-comum é uma espécie de peixe comum encontrado frequentemente em águas adequadas e zonas com estrutura para esta espécie. Este guia resume identificação, habitat e cuidados de pesca.

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Golden Dorado reference image
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Golden Dorado

Salminus brasiliensis

Golden dorado is a large, toothy South American characiform prized as a hard-fighting predator in warm river systems. It hunts aggressively in current and often ambushes prey around structure, drop-offs, and riffles.

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Largemouth bass in shallow water
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Achigã

Micropterus salmoides

Achigã é uma espécie de peixe comum encontrado frequentemente em águas adequadas e zonas com estrutura para esta espécie. Este guia resume identificação, habitat e cuidados de pesca.

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Peacock Bass reference image
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Peacock Bass

Cichla ocellaris

Peacock bass (Cichla ocellaris) is a large, colorful Amazonian cichlid with a predatory streak and a prominent tail ocellus. It thrives in warm lowland waters and is prized as a hard-hitting sport fish where introduced or native.

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Rainbow trout with pink lateral band
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Truta arco-íris

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Truta arco-íris é uma espécie de peixe comum encontrado frequentemente em águas adequadas e zonas com estrutura para esta espécie. Este guia resume identificação, habitat e cuidados de pesca.

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Redtail Catfish reference image
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Redtail Catfish

Phractocephalus hemioliopterus

Redtail Catfish is a giant Amazonian catfish prized by anglers and aquarium keepers. It lives in large tropical rivers and floodplains, growing fast and feeding opportunistically on fish, crustaceans, and carrion.

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African Tigerfish reference image
Freshwater

Peixe-tigre Africano

Hydrocynus vittatus

O peixe-tigre africano (Hydrocynus vittatus) é um caracídeo predador rápido e agressivo, conhecido por investidas explosivas e corridas poderosas. Habita grandes rios e lagoas de planícies aluviais em grande parte da África austral e central.

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Alabama Bass reference image
Freshwater

Achigã-do-Alabama

Micropterus henshalli

O Achigã-do-Alabama (Micropterus henshalli) é um achigã preto nativo da bacia do rio Mobile e estreitamente aparentado com o achigã manchado. Prefere águas límpidas a moderadamente turvas, riachos, reservatórios e correntes de cauda com cobertura rochosa, de madeira e das margens.

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Freshwater

Alligator Gar

Atractosteus spatula

Alligator gar is a large, ancient ray-finned fish of slow rivers, backwaters, oxbows, and floodplain lakes in the Mississippi basin and nearby coastal drainages. It ambushes fish at the surface and can breathe air, allowing it to survive low-oxygen water.

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American Gizzard Shad reference image
Freshwater

Sável Americano

Dorosoma cepedianum

O Sável Americano é um peixe forrageiro clupeídeo prateado comum em águas quentes e lentas de grande parte do leste e centro da América do Norte. Alimenta-se por filtragem de plâncton e detritos, e é presa importante para achigã, bagre, pombo e outros predadores.

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Freshwater

American Pickerel

Esox americanus

American Pickerel (Esox americanus) is a slender, ambush-predatory esocid found in vegetated fresh waters across eastern North America. It is smaller and more delicately built than northern pike or muskellunge, with a duck-bill snout and chainlike markings.

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