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Oliveira Borges; Maria Nazareth Ferreira da Silva; Lorena Costa Pinto; José Gurgel Rabello Neto (2018). "Mice on menu: opportunistic feeding behaviour of the Amazonian silver arowana Osteoglossum bicirrhosum".
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are sometimes called 'dragon fish' by aquarists because their shiny, armor-like scales and double barbels are reminiscent of descriptions of
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Saint-Paul; Zuanon; Correa; García; Fabré; Berger; Junk (2000). "Fish communities in central
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810:. 25 November 2023. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
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785:"Osteoglossum bicirrhosum (Arawana)"
385:and drainage of land for human use.
1200:IUCN Red List least concern species
508:"Predators: South American Arowana"
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685:. Simon and Schuster. p. 16.
286:The silver arowana occurs in both
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271:basins. It is absent from the
247:means "two barbels" (from the
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712:European Journal of Ecology
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