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Quantitative analysis of published data on the growth, metabolism, food consumption, and related features of the red-bellied piranha,Serrasalmus nattereri (Characidae)

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A tentative set of growth parameters of the von Bertalanffy growth equation were estimated for the red-bellied piranha,Serrasalmus nattereri, a common characid of the Amazonas and adjacent floodplains, based on length-frequency data collected by R.H. Lowe-McConnell in Guyana. These parameters and related statistics are then used, along with published data from metabolic, field and feeding experiment data to estimate the relative food consumption of a population ofS. nattereri. This is complemented with biological data assembled from the scattered literature onS. nattereri to provide a ‘snapshot’ of this species.

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Pauly, D. Quantitative analysis of published data on the growth, metabolism, food consumption, and related features of the red-bellied piranha,Serrasalmus nattereri (Characidae). Environ Biol Fish 41, 423–437 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00023826

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