Hoplias australis
# 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.

