Leporinus tigrinus

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio) |date=2022 |title=Leporinus tigrinus |volume=2022 |page=e.T139549236A139549242 |access-date=2 June 2023}}

| taxon = Leporinus tigrinus

| authority = Borodin 1929

}}

Leporinus tigrinus is a species of anostomid fish. It is native to the Tapajós, Tocantins and Xingu river basins in Brazil, and has also been introduced to the upper Paraná basin.{{cite book|last1=Garavello|first1=J.C.|first2=H.A.|last2=Britski|year=2003|chapter=Anostomidae (Headstanders)|pages=71–84 |editor=R.E. Reis |editor2=S.O. Kullander |editor3=C.J. Ferraris Jr|title=Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America|location=Porto Alegre|publisher=EDIPUCRS}}

Description

Leporinus tigrinus can reach up to {{cvt|29.8|cm|in}} in standard length.{{FishBase | genus = Leporinus | species = tigrinus | month = June | year = 2023}}

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