Tony
dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu wrote:
>
> Is this the fish (attached) you are talking about? It might be
> Colossoma bidens, called piripatinga in its native land (Amazon
> basin), where other, much smaller fishes are called pacu. This fish
> is in aquaculture in various parts of the world. It is eaten in
> Brazil, but not preferred so much as _C. macropomum_, which I can
> attest is delicious. AFS has a publication on scientific and common
> names of fishes from other contries important to the U.S. It's-in-my
> office, where I am not right now. The red coloration may be an
> artifact of cultivation, or it may have been selected for, but it is
> not typical of wild piripatinga.
>
> Goulding describes piripatinga as reaching 20kg, and being the second
> largest scaled characid in the Amazon, after tambiqui, which reaches
> 25 kg.
>
> the fish caught in Texas appears, from its lighter dorsal, darker
> venter, rather than the other way around, to be tambiqui.
>
> David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
> Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
> Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
> telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
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