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The payara, which is also sold as the saber tooth barracuda, vampire fish, vampire tetra, or saber tusk barracuda, is a popular species for large, aggressive aquariums. It requires a large aquarium and can only be mixed with relatively large species, as smaller will be seen as potential prey. [4]
Hydrolycus armatus is a species of dogtooth characin found in freshwater of tropical South America. [2] It is sometimes known as Payara, [1] or harm, [3] [4] [5] a name it shares with the related H. scomberoides.
Vampire fish is a colloquial name given to the following varieties of fish: Candiru (fish) (Vandellia cirrhosa), a species of parasitic freshwater catfish; Payara, a species of dogtooth tetra; Sea lamprey, a parasitic lamprey
Cynodontidae, also known as dogtooth characins or vampire tetras, are a family of predatory, characiform freshwater fishes from South America. This group is not very diverse, and includes only five genera and 14 species .
After discovering countless fish in the lake bearing the signs of this ancient predator, he learns from a victim that the attacker is the sea lamprey. Unable to catch the fish using a rod and line, Wade offers himself as bait to test the lampreys' abilities and then travels to the Pacific Northwest to catch lamprey by hand with a native tribe.
Hydrolycus is a genus of large dogtooth characins from tropical South America, where found in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, as well as rivers of the Guianas. [1] The genus includes the largest dogtooth characins, reaching up to 1.17 m (3.8 ft) in length. [1]
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Cynodontinae is a subfamily of tropical and subtropical South American fishes of the family Cynodontidae.They are characterized by an oblique mouth and very long distinct canines, which are used to capture and stab their prey, other fish that can be up to half the length of the cynodontine itself. [1]