title: Hoplias australis
text: # Hoplias australis
  
  Hoplias australis is a predatory freshwater characin fish of the southern Neotropics.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Southern South America, throughout the Rio Uruguay basin, including its tributary Rio Negro, Uruguay where it is endemic.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  Osvaldo Oyakawa and George Mattox described Hoplias austalis at the same time as Hoplias curupira.
  
  