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Table 1: 924 species currently present in the country/island (endemic, native, introduced, reintroduced);
Table 2: 11 species possibly present in the country/island (stray, questionable);
Table 3: 30 species demonstrated to be absent in the country/island (extirpated, not established, misidentification, error).
Table 4: 965 species reported from the country/island altogether.
Table 1: 924 species currently present in the country/island.
     
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Family Species Author Info Occurrence Common names Abundance Max length Maturity Remark Photo
Characidae Bryconamericus grosvenori Eigenmann, 1927 Fr native  Mojarita (Spanish)  7.00 cm TL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River. Also Ref. 598.  No picture yet.
Characidae Bryconamericus osgoodi Eigenmann & Allen, 1942 Fr native  Mojarita (Spanish)  6.10 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River. Also Ref. 598. 
Characidae Bryconamericus pachacuti Eigenmann, 1927 Fr native  Mojarita (Spanish)  7.50 cm TL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River.  No picture yet.
Characidae Bryconamericus pectinatus Vari & Siebert, 1990 Fr native   8.00 cm TL male/unsexed    No picture yet.
Characidae Bryconamericus peruanus (Müller & Troschel, 1845) Fr native  Carachita (Spanish)  9.20 cm SL male/unsexed  Type locality: near Lima (38376). Also Ref. 598. 
Characidae Bryconamericus phoenicopterus (Cope, 1872) Fr native  Mojarita (Spanish)  6.00 cm TL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River. Also Ref. 598.  No picture yet.
Characidae Bryconamericus simus (Boulenger, 1898) Fr native  Mojarita (Spanish)  8.70 cm TL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River.  No picture yet.
Characidae Bryconamericus thomasi Fowler, 1940 Fr native  Mojarita (Spanish)  7.00 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River.  No picture yet.
Characidae Bryconella pallidifrons (Fowler, 1946) Fr native  Mojarrita (Spanish)  2.32 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River. 
Iguanodectidae Bryconops affinis (Günther, 1864) Fr native  Denton (Spanish)  12.00 cm TL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River. 
Cichlidae Bujurquina apoparuana Kullander, 1986 Fr endemic   7.70 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from streams between Pucallpa and Tournavista, and lower reaches of the left bank Ucayali tributaries Shahuaya and Amaquiria (Ref. 9088). 
Cichlidae Bujurquina cordemadi Kullander, 1986 Fr native   6.20 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from two localities near Puerto Maldonado, both in tributaries to the R. Madre de Dios.  No picture yet.
Cichlidae Bujurquina eurhinus Kullander, 1986 Fr endemic   8.90 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin, in the Madre de Dios drainage (Pilcopata, upper Madre de Dios, Manú, Colorado and Marcapata rivers) (Ref. 36377). 
Cichlidae Bujurquina hophrys Kullander, 1986 Fr endemic   8.50 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin, in the Pachitea and Aguaytía River basins (Ref. 36377).  No picture yet.
Cichlidae Bujurquina huallagae Kullander, 1986 Fr endemic   8.30 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin, in the Huallaga River basin at Tarapoto and Tingo María (Ref. 36377). 
Cichlidae Bujurquina labiosa Kullander, 1986 Fr endemic   5.50 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the upper River Ucayali (near Chinipo River), Amazon River basin (Ref. 36377).  No picture yet.
Cichlidae Bujurquina megalospilus Kullander, 1986 Fr endemic   7.10 cm SL male/unsexed ;7.07 cm SL female  Known from the Amazon River basin, in the Pachitea and Aguaytía River basins (Ref. 36377). Found in Tournavista and R. Neshuya (Ref. 9088).  No picture yet.
Cichlidae Bujurquina moriorum Kullander, 1986 Fr endemic   9.70 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin, in the Carahuayte, Mazám and lower Napo River basins (Ref. 36377). 
Cichlidae Bujurquina omagua Rican & Ricanova, 2023 Fr native   9.89 cm SL male/unsexed  Type locality of Bujurquina omagua: Amazon River basin, Loreto, Maynas Province, District Las Amazonas, close to Oran village, Quebrada Sabalillo, cabeceras upper locality P18-17 (Ref. 128854).  No picture yet.
Cichlidae Bujurquina ortegai Kullander, 1986 Fr native   11.00 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36377) in the Mayo river near Moyobamba and Rioja (Ref. 9088).  No picture yet.
Cichlidae Bujurquina peregrinabunda Kullander, 1986 Fr native   10.70 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin in the lower Ampiyacu River basin (Ref. 36377). 
Cichlidae Bujurquina robusta Kullander, 1986 Fr native   8.80 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin, in the Chinipo River basin (upper Ucayali River drainage) (Ref. 36377).  No picture yet.
Cichlidae Bujurquina syspilus (Cope, 1872) Fr endemic   10.30 cm SL male/unsexed  Found in the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36377), from the lower Ucayali, lower Napo, lower Ampiyacu and lower Yavari (Ref. 9088). 
Cichlidae Bujurquina tambopatae Kullander, 1986 Fr endemic   8.20 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from Tambopata River basin (Madre de Dios River drainage) of the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36377).  No picture yet.
Aspredinidae Bunocephalus aleuropsis Cope, 1870 Fr native   9.10 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36695).  No picture yet.
Aspredinidae Bunocephalus coracoideus (Cope, 1874) Fr, Or native  Sapo cunshi (Spanish), Banjo cat (English)  11.00 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36695). Exported as an aquarium fish (Ref. 9235). Also Ref. 6868. 
Aspredinidae Bunocephalus knerii Steindachner, 1882 Fr native   13.00 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36695).  No picture yet.
Aspredinidae Bunocephalus verrucosus (Walbaum, 1792) Fr native   9.84 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36695). 
Chilodontidae Caenotropus labyrinthicus (Kner, 1858) Fr native   14.80 cm SL male/unsexed ;25.30 cm SL female  Known from the Amazon River (Ref. 37477). 
Callichthyidae Callichthys callichthys (Linnaeus, 1758) Fr native   21.00 cm TL male/unsexed   
Pimelodidae Calophysus macropterus (Lichtenstein, 1819) Fr, Or native  Mota (Spanish), Bagre (Spanish), Mota moteada (Spanish), Callophysus catfish (English)  40.00 cm TL male/unsexed  Occurs in Ucayali, Marañon, Pacaya, Samiria and Huallaga Rivers. Exported as an aquarium fish (Ref. 9235). 
Cyprinidae Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) Fr introduced   48.00 cm TL male/unsexed   
Carcharhinidae Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) Fr, Br, M native  Cazón (Spanish), Tiburón (Spanish), Tiburón ñato (Spanish)  360 cm TL male/unsexed ;400 cm TL female  Found in Amazon and Ucayali Rivers (Ref. 79732). Also recorded from Paita (Ref. 96339). Also Ref. 244. 
Gasteropelecidae Carnegiella myersi Fernández-Yépez, 1950 Fr native  Pechito (Spanish)  2.15 cm SL male/unsexed  Recorded from the Amazon. 
Gasteropelecidae Carnegiella schereri Fernández-Yépez, 1950 Fr native  Pechito (Spanish)  2.60 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River (Ref. 39056). 
Gasteropelecidae Carnegiella strigata (Günther, 1864) Fr, Or native  Pechito jaspeado (Spanish), Pechito (Spanish), Strigata (Spanish)  3.49 cm SL male/unsexed  Occurs in tributaries of the Amazon system and vicinity of Iquitos; also in the Napo and Mazán Rivers. Exported as an aquarium fish (Ref. 9235). Also Ref. 39056. 
Ariidae Cathorops tuyra (Meek & Hildebrand, 1923) Fr, Br, M native   33.90 cm TL male/unsexed   
Doradidae Centrodoras brachiatus (Cope, 1872) Fr native  Bagre (Spanish)  41.00 cm TL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River (Ref. 37054). 
Auchenipteridae Centromochlus existimatus Mees, 1974 Fr native  Pirillo (Spanish)  9.02 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from Contamana, rio Ucayali basin; rio Amazonas, Iquitos; and rio Ucayali, Pucallpa (Ref. 39641). Also Ref. 37098. 
Auchenipteridae Centromochlus heckelii (De Filippi, 1853) Fr native  Pirillo (Spanish)  13.90 cm SL male/unsexed  Found in the Rio Napo (Ref. 6868). 
Centropomidae Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864 Fr, Br, M native  Róbalo (Spanish)  123 cm TL male/unsexed   
Characidae Ceratobranchia binghami Eigenmann, 1927 Fr native  Mojarita (Spanish)  6.20 cm TL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River.  No picture yet.
Characidae Ceratobranchia delotaenia Chernoff & Machado-Allison, 1990 Fr native   3.79 cm SL male/unsexed  Found in the Amazon River basin (Ref. 38376).  No picture yet.
Characidae Ceratobranchia obtusirostris Eigenmann, 1914 Fr native  Mojarita (Spanish)  5.50 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River. Also Ref. 598. 
Cetopsidae Cetopsis candiru Spix & Agassiz, 1829 Fr native  Canero (Spanish)  26.30 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36486). 
Cetopsidae Cetopsis coecutiens (Lichtenstein, 1819) Fr native   27.30 cm TL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36486). 
Cetopsidae Cetopsis montana Vari, Ferraris & de Pinna, 2005 Fr native   11.90 cm SL male/unsexed   
Cetopsidae Cetopsis oliveirai (Lundberg & Rapp Py-Daniel, 1994) Fr native   3.60 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36486). 
Cetopsidae Cetopsis parma Oliveira, Vari & Ferraris, 2001 Fr native   17.00 cm SL male/unsexed  Known from the Amazon River basin (Ref. 36486). 
Cetopsidae Cetopsis pearsoni Vari, Ferraris & de Pinna, 2005 Fr native   11.40 cm SL male/unsexed    No picture yet.
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