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Candirus
Candirus are parasites that feed on the blood and flesh of their victims. Using the spines on their gill covers, they wedge themselves into the gills of other fish, where they then live and feed.
Scientific name: Vandellia ...
Candiru feeds on blood earning it the horrific name 'vampire fish'.
It hides in the muddy bottoms of the slow moving freshwater streams waiting for a suitable host to wander within reach.
All species of the genus Labeo (Labeos) except Labeo chrysophekadion (Black SharkMinnow) Walking Catfishes, Family Clariidae All species Electric Catfishes, Family Malapteruridae All species South American Parasitic Candiru Catfishes, ...
The catfishes are also extremely diverse, ranging in size from tiny three-quarter-inch-long bloodsucking candirus to the six-foot-long 300-pound monsters known as piraiba.
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They feature some of the smallest known vertebrates, including the candiru, the only vertebrate parasite to attack humans, as well as Pangasius gigas, the largest reported freshwater fish.
sea catfishes, eeltail catfishes, squeakers, thorny catfishes, auchenipterid catfishes, long-whiskered catfishes, bottlenose catfishes, helogeneid catfishes, whalelike catfishes, loweye catfishes, banjo catfishes, parasitic catfishes, candirus, ...
 See also: Catfish, Diver, Electric catfish, Swallow, Perch
  
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