Talk:Arapaima

message: ****The Pirarucu is a fantastic fish, but THIS PAGE NEEDS REFERENCES! Sorry, but I don't know where or how else to post this, and I can't edit the actual article for some reason.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.210.69.29 (talk) 22:43, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I couldn't find an image, so I took this one. Sorry it's so dark; I'll try to get a better one. Ginkgo100 00:10, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References and photos

message: :There should probably be a separate article Largest freshwater fish that addresses all these claims, so that all the candidate species articles can link to it instead of trying to reproduce the verbiage each in slightly different and possibly incorrect ways. Article is likely to be of general interest, fisherfolk always being fascinated by fish size. Stan 06:00, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. We could then make reference to the new article in regard to these claims. This has been thrown about before but nobody has gotten around to doing it. Volunteers? --Ginkgo100 talk 17:59, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Largest organisms article cover these claims, though currently missing a proper amount of citations. MiltonT 02:17, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fish sizes 

message: The Arapaima are renowned and famous for being able to breathe air from the surface due to a lung-like lining to their throat. I don't feel the article makes this sufficiently clear, so I am planning to add it in. Liamshaw 16:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The term "bony fish" refers to the taxonomic group Osteichthyes distinct from the group Chondrichthyes. The latter group is more primitive and contains sharks and rays. Sturgeon are part of the former group, although they appear to have evolved in a way that reduced the amount of bone in their skeletons. (Fossilized ancestors of sturgeon had more bone than modern sturgeon do.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.106.183.194 (talk) 17:54, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air-breathing 

message: This video source shows the catch and release of a 10 foot 1 inch 339 lb individual. It's a primary source but should be sufficient for putting stats at a verified largest catch. — raekyt 18:58, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  10 feet 1 inch, 339 pound source 

message: The article says "In his book The Whispering Land, naturalist Gerald Durrell reports hearing the tale in Argentina that female arapaima have been seen secreting a white substance from a gland in the head and that their young have been noted seemingly feeding on the substance."
I don't have "The Whispering Land" to hand, but I'm currently reading Durrell's "Three Singles to Adventure" (Penguin paperback, , 1975 printing) which has the following paragraph in chapter 4, on page 89:
McTurk told us a curious thing about these fish, which has not, so far as I can find out, been recorded before. During the breeding season the female arapaima develops a form of gland on the back of the head, which exudes a white, milk-like substance. He said that on several occasions he had observed young arapaima clustering round their mother's head and apparently feeding on this white 'milk'. This astonished me, and I hoped that we might be lucky enough to see such a sight during our stay in the Rupununi, but unfortunately we did not. The discovery of a fish that 'suckles' its young would, I feel, cause no little sensation among zoologists and ichthyologists.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.142.96.34 (talk) 14:17, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suckling young - Durrell citation 

message: This page is a bit of a mess and it is entirely unclear if it is supposed to be about a single species (see e.g. taxobox) or about several species (see e.g. inclusion of photos of several species). In the former case, much of the info should be updated to reflect whichever species it is supposed to be about. In the latter case, the article should be merged with Arapaima (genus), while splitting off info specific to single species to their own articles.
One problem is that FishBase, the de-facto taxonomic authority on wiki, have followed Stewart (and Castello) in most of the taxonomy they proposed, but for some reason continue to treat Arapaima arapaima as a synonym of Arapaima gigas. Why they've done this is unclear; it is not supported by recent taxonomic publications. It is entirely possible that they only had these well-known names, A. arapaima and A. gigas, listed before and then simply forgot to update the taxonomy when the new publication resurrected several previous synonyms, but who knows (it has happened before – see e.g. Andinoacara and flagtail pipefish; both later corrected by FishBase). A rough taxonomic overview can be seen in the current version of Arapaima (genus). 62.107.220.107 (talk) 17:34, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I think most of the information in this article applies to the entire genus, especially since since little distinction has been made until recently between the different species.  I support merging this article into Arapaima (genus) and creating new articles or stubs for A. gigas and/or A. arapaima if there is enough specific information (pun intended). 67.188.230.128 (talk) 02:19, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arapaima taxonomy 

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message: Arapaima is the name of a popular locale in the virtual world Second Life  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:5CC:C580:3D50:BD4F:EF7A:D969:1D27 (talk) 06:39, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
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