The Living Death Swamp (2)
"What is this place?" Aya asked with a confused look.
I was shaken up too but that couldn't give me any reason to so much fear what was in the water.
"I have confirmed of a black and red-bellied piranha. The red-bellied, have a reputation as ferocious predators that hunt their prey in schools. While the black piranha produces one of the most forceful bites measured in vertebrates.
"Pufferfish noted for their ability when disturbed to inflate themselves so greatly with air and water that they become globular in form. They have tough, usually prickly skins and fused teeth that form a beaklike structure with a split in the center of each jaw. Many species are poisonous; a highly toxic substance, tetrodotoxin, is especially concentrated in the internal organs.
"Red lionfish, they are noted for their venomous fin spines, which are capable of producing painful, though rarely fatal, puncture wounds.
"The candiru, a parasitic, scaleless catfish.