Erythrinidae

Tiger fish

Hoplias microlepis

Thirty Six Centimeters Erythrinid Fish of South American Waters

• Tropical
• Southern Hemisphere
• Restricted distribution
• Freshwater fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Central America and the Caribbean
• South America
• Elongated
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Hoplias microlepis, the smallscale wolffish, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Erythrinidae, the trahiras. This species is found in northwestern South America and in southern Central America.