Later, John
--- dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu wrote:
> Michael, I don't think anyone said the fish in
> question was what is
> called a silver dollar in the American aquarium
> trade -- which is one
> of several smaller characin species called pacu in
> their native
> Brazil. It was identified by someone as a pacu,
> which what North
> Americans call tambaqui, one of the giant Collosoma
> species. No one
> in Brazil calls Collosoma pacu.
>
> Dave
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