Re: NANFA-L-- Texas Man Catches Fish With Human-Like Teeth

dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:17:30 -0500

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
home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm

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----- Original Message -----
From: anutej-in-loxinfo.co.th
Date: Friday, July 21, 2006 2:01 am
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Texas Man Catches Fish With Human-Like Teeth
> Though the pic doesn't come through I think it's the one. It is
first
> a sort of aquarium species, and then the fisheries department and
some
> farms promoted it as new food fish, labelling it "freshwater pomfret"
> and failed to make it as good price food fish [it is sold-in-low
price
> now]. It is then released in major rivers, ponds and reservoirs.
> More are escaped from aquaculture ponds. Strangly they don't seem to
> breed on their own in the natural habitat here.
>
> 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
> > home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
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