Jennifer.
At 09:18 AM 2/02/00 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 Piabinha at AOL.COM wrote:
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>> mach mentioned freshwater sharks. the only ones i heard of were in the
>> amazon, but they are not very big, and certainly not available in the
hobby.
>
>I don't know their names, but Peter Last (a sharkish kinda guy) was
telling me
>about a freshwater one in Australia, although he thinks it may be extinct. I
>think he said it lived in NE Qld. This species, whatever it is apparently is
>only known from a few records, and I think Peter said it may closely resemble
>another species, hence why it is so little known. That's about all my meager
>memory can dig up, and even then I wouldn't rely on it too much. :-)
>
>There used to be a freshwater shark in Irian Jaya (it was in one of the
>"recent" Aqua Geo's by Allen), but there haven't been any records of it for
>some time. It lived in a lake. Wasn't (or isn't) there also a shark in Lake
>Nicauragua (or however you spell it)? I seem to remember there was something
>out of the ordinary in that lake.
>
>Cheers
>Peter Unmack
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