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  • Toothy invader causes piranha scare [Texas pacu]

    08/19/2005 9:36:20 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 20 replies · 2,629+ views
    Del Rio News-Herald ^ | August 17, 2005 | Jennifer Killin
    When fishing in the San Felipe Creek one can happen upon a variety of fish from bass to perch to armored catfish. In Domingo Garza Jr.’s case, he caught what he believed to be a piranha. In actuality, the fish has been identified as a Piaractus brachypomus, better known as the Red-bellied Pacu. The pacu is a cousin to the notorious piranha, and both are native to Central and South America, according to the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission Web site. Garza, a 57-year-old resident of Del Rio, caught the strange, toothy fish in a section of San Felipe Creek...