Paraná Pacu

Piaractus mesopotamicus, le Pacu, Mbiraí ou Pez chato est un poisson d'eau douce de l'ordre des Characiformes, de la famille des Serrasalmidae. Natif du bassin du río Paraguay et río Paraná. D'autres poissons d'Amérique du Sud sont aussi appelés pacus.

Piaractus mesopotamicus, pirapitinga, the small-scaled pacu, Paraná River pacu or simply pacu (a name shared with other species), is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Serrasalmidae, which includes the piranhas, pacus and related fishes. These fishes are endemic to the drainage basin of the Paraguay River in South America. Taxonomy Piaractus mesopotamicus was first formally described as Myletes (Myleus) mesopotamicus in 1887 by the Argentine naturalist and novelist Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg with its type locality given as the Río Uruguay and Río Baradero,…

El pacú blanco (Piaractus mesopotamicus) también llamado gambitana, morocoto, cachama blanca, o mbiraí pitaí es un pez de agua dulce de la familia Serrasalmidae (subfamilia Colossominae), nativo de la cuenca de los ríos Paraguay y Paraná. ​ Es robusto, de forma ovoide, y lateralmente aplanado. Alcanza los 45 cm de largo, y los 20 kg de peso.