OSTEOGLOSSIFORMESOSTEOGLOSSIFORMES
| Japan 2008 | Brazil 1988 | Burkina Faso 2001 |
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| Asian Bonytongue Scleropages formosus (Arapaimidae) |
Black Arowana Osteoglossum ferreirai (Arapaimidae) |
African Arowana Heterotis niloticus (Arapaimidae) |
| Central Africa 2001 | Vietnam 2001 | Laos 1967 |
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| African Knifefish Xenomystus nigri (Notopteridae) |
Clown Knifefish Chitala chitala (Notopteridae) |
Bronze Featherback Knifefish Notopterus notopterus (Notopteridae) |
| Burkina Faso 2001 | Zaire 1978 |
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| Frankfish Gymnarchus niloticus (Gymnarchidae) |
African Butterfly Fish Pantodon buchholzi (Pantodontidae) |
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| Asian Bonytongue Scleropages formosus (Arapaimidae) (OSTEOGLOSSIFORMES) |
Arowana belongs to Osteoglossiformes Arapaimidae, and Arowana is high group which is popular as appreciation use in particular in an ancient fish. There are seven kinds of one kind of plans in three kinds, the African Continent in three kinds, Southeastern Asian Oceania in the South America. All kinds are strong in a tendency to compete for at the same kind interval, but it may be said that it is a keeping together direction because it is comparatively mild in others class. As for Asian Bonytongue in this course and greatest kind Pirarucu of the existence scale freshwater fish, collection and the transaction of the wild individual are regulated strictly by CITES.
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