Golden dorado

For other uses, see Dorado (disambiguation)

Taxobox
name = Golden Dorado

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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Characiformes
familia = Characidae
genus = Salminus
species = "S. maxillosus"
binomial = "Salminus maxillosus"
binomial_authority = (Cuvier, 1816)The Golden Dorado is a large river fish that lives in South America. Its binomial name is "Salminus maxillosus". Even though it has Salminus in its name, the dorado is not related to salmon, nor to the saltwater fish also called dorado.

Description

Dorado have large heads, with powerful jaws that are filled with sharp teeth. They average about convert|3|ft|m long, and are golden colored. The average size of the golden dorado is about 6-25 pounds, but the largest recorded size is 68 pounds.

Habitat

Dorado live in the warm waters of the Plata and Amazon systems in South America, specifically in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia.

Diet

Dorados have a wide variety of prey - fish, frogs, birds, and small mammals. One of the dorados favorite food are sabalo, a type of schooling fish of two to six pounds.

Behavior

Dorado mainly travel in small groups.

Dorado in Popular Culture

The dorado appears in the game Animal Crossing as well as the NDS game as an extremely rare fish; the Coelacanth being the rarest.

External links

* [http://www.midcurrent.com/articles/trips/richardson_dorado.aspx]