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(Ref. 39031) FB-Uses-8696 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1993-12-04 00:00:00 2024-05-23 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8696 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Habitat fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes; aquarium: public aquariums Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott 1991 World fishes important to North Americans. Exclusive of species from the continental waters of the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (21):243 p. (Ref. 4537) Crawford, R. 1993 World record game fishes 1993. The International Game Fish Association, Pompano Beach, Florida. (Ref. 6323) Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott 1991 World fishes important to North Americans. Exclusive of species from the continental waters of the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (21):243 p. (Ref. 4537) FB-Size-8696 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Rainer Froese 1993-12-04 00:00:00 2024-05-23 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ WorldFish Center - FishBase General public http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=8696 http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#Distribution 38.0 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 130067)); max. published weight: 3,175 g (Ref. 40637) Pessali, T.C., G.N. Salvador, C.B.M. Alves, D.H.C. Drager, C.H. Zawadzki, E.G. Prata, F. Vieira, G.B. Santos, G.R. Rosa, I. Penido, J.P.C. Gomes, M.F.G. Brito, P.S. Pompei, R.P. Leitao, S.A. dos Santos, T.A. Barroso and T.C. … Ribeiro 2022 Length-weight relationships of 78 fish species from São Francisco River basin, Brazil. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 38:344-351. (Ref. 130067) IGFA 2001 Database of IGFA angling records until 2001. 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