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Golden dorado
For other uses, see Dorado (disambiguation)
The Golden Dorado is a large river fish that lives in South America. Its binomial name is Salminus maxillosus. Even though it has Salminus in its name, the dorado is not related to salmon, nor to the saltwater fish also called dorado.
Description
Dorado have large heads, with powerful jaws that are filled with sharp teeth. They average about 3 feet long, and are golden colored. The average size of the golden dorado is about 6-25 pounds, but the largest recorded size is 68 pounds.
Habitat
Dorado live in the warm waters of the Plata and Amazon systems in South America, specifically in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia.
Diet
Dorados have a wide variety of prey - fish, frogs, birds, and small mammals. One of the dorados favorite food are sabalo, a type of schooling fish of two to six pounds.
Behavior
Dorado mainly travel in small groups.
Dorado in Popular Culture
The dorado appears in the game Animal Crossing as well as the NDS game [[Animal Crossing: Wild World]] as an extremely rare fish, with the Coelacanth being the rarest.
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