Description
Русский: Красный Паку
English: Red Pacu
Español: pacú blanco, mbiraí, pez chato, cachama blanca, morocoto, tambaqui
Português: caranha, pirapitinga, tambaqui
Latina: Colossoma bidens = Piaractus brachypomus
Date 11 October 2007
Author Wisky https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wisky
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Pacu.JPG

Piaractus brachypomus is an Amazonic pacu, a close relative of piranhas and silver dollars. As with a number of other closely related species, P. brachypomus is often referred to as the red-bellied pacu. This has resulted in a great deal of confusion about the nature and needs of all the species involved, with the reputation and requirements of one frequently being wrongly attributed to the others. An unambiguous name for P. brachypomus is pirapitinga. Order: Characiformes, Family: Serrasalmidae, Genus: Piaractus, Species: Piaractus brachypomus (G. Cuvier, 1818).
Synonyms:
Colossoma bidens (Spix & Agassiz, 1829)
Colossoma brachypomum