The most dangerous fish in the Amazon.

The most dangerous fish in the Amazon.

This notorious small fish in the Amazon basin is called "parasitic catfish", but most people prefer to call it "toothpick fish", and some even call it "fish from hell" and "Brazilian blood-sucking fish". Of course, most of these people are victims.

Toothed finger fish is a kind of fish that lives by parasites, and it may also be the smallest vertebrate in the world. Generally within 10 cm, the whole body is almost transparent, and it is extremely difficult to find in water.

Toothfish has a very strong swimming ability. It can swim very fast in the water. After all, the water in the Amazon River is full of dangers. If it doesn't swim fast, it will easily be called "eat small fish the Big Fish".

However, the toothfish, which swims very fast, has realized "small fish eat big fish". Just like its name "parasitic catfish", toothfish is an animal that lives by parasitism. Toothfish will get into the gill of a big fish, rely on it to have barbed gills, fix itself in the gill of a big fish, and then suck fish blood in the gill of a big fish for a living.

When a man enters the river, the toothfish will inadvertently crawl into the human body along the male urethra, and then cut the internal skin of the person to bleed and suck blood. Needless to say, this process is simply torture to people, so it is called "the fish of hell". After eating enough blood, its body will swell Under normal circumstances, it will choose to swim, but the swollen toothfish in the human body can't quit, so it can only go all the way forward and finally come to the bladder.

In the past without tights, people were very vulnerable to the attack of this small fish in the Amazon River. At that time, medical technology was underdeveloped. Many people can only get rid of local organs in exchange for their lives after being drilled into their bodies by toothpicks. Because once the toothfish enters the bladder, the host will face endless abdominal pain, which will make people miserable and eventually die of excessive blood loss.

Therefore, most locals stay away from this "toothpick fish" for fear of avoiding it.