Hoplias australis is a predatory freshwater characin fish of the southern Neotropics.

Southern South America, throughout the Rio Uruguay basin, including its tributary Rio Negro, Uruguay where it is endemic.

[3] Osvaldo Oyakawa and George Mattox described Hoplias australis at the same time as Hoplias curupira.

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