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Posted 01 September 2005 - 01:21 PM (#1) User is offline   MR.FREEZ 

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whats more accureate latin name of this fish?

Piaractus brachypomum

Colossoma macropomum

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Posted 01 September 2005 - 01:24 PM (#2) User is offline   Pyri 

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In here Finland we use Colossoma macropomum -name

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Pyri, on Sep 1 2005, 11:24 AM, said:

In here Finland we use Colossoma macropomum -name
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yeah thats what i was gonna go with but then i

saw some black pacu info with that name also

Posted 02 September 2005 - 01:23 PM (#4) User is offline   jan 

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I have always learned that the scientific name for the redbellied pacu was piaractus brachypomum and for the black pacu it was colossoma macropomum.

Edit: just dis a google search on colossoma macropomum and this are just 3 of the many links that stated black piranha:

http://aquavisie.retry.org/Database/Vissen...macropomum.html

http://www.thetropic...dx/pacu-blk.htm

http://badmanstropic.../profile86.html

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