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Fish of The
Amazon
River
Basin
The
Amazon River might not be
the longest river in the world, but in terms of flow it is the biggest. The flow of the
Amazon
River is about 40,000 cubic Kilometres a year. This is a lot of water. The Amazon basin is nearly 7 million square
kilometres. This is a large area. It is not entirely surprising that the Amazon
and its tributaries contain about 3,000 species of fish.
These range from the tiny, very well known but astonishingly
beautiful, Neon Tetra to the giant Piramutaba Catfish. Many of these fish are harmless, but some are
slightly less so like the savage piranha and the terrifying Toothpick
Fish.
We have tranfered our books about the aquatic creatures of the Amazon to The Bookpost web site.
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Population Growth & Evolution 
