by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 5, 2013 | Freshwater, News & Notes
Scandinavian scientists issue Pacu Warning to male skinny dippers Summer months, often the doldrums for hard news, annually bring out shark-attack scare stories and flashbacks to hair-raising scenes in the movie JAWS, but for northern European swimmers the mid-summer...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 5, 2013 | Freshwater
Piaractus brachypomus (Cuvier, 1818) Red-Bellied Pacu (Pirapitinga, Giant Pacu, Black Pacu, Gamitana) Order: Characiformes (18 families, 270 genera, approximately 1,674 species) Family: Serrasalmidae (Pacu, Piranha, Silver Dollars) Overview: Pacus are vegetarian...