The bizarre South American armoured fish found in a Leicestershire canal 
US Source: Daily Mail 3/29/2009
The bizarre South American armoured fish found in a Leicestershire canal
As an ambitious young angler you are always looking for a catch to impress your friends.

If you can land one that scares them too, well that's a bonus.

Shaun Brown, 14, managed to hook this ugly-looking creature from the less than exotic surroundings of the Grand Union Canal in Leicestershire.

With its prehistoric armour-like scales it looks like the mechanical Terror Fish that used to pursue Troy Tempest in the Sixties puppet show, Stingray.
 

In fact, it is a tropical fish that would normally be found in Central America.

Shawn pulled the 10in specimen from the canal at Wigston.

He took this photo of it and showed it to a number of aquarists who have identified it as an armoured suckermouth catfish. They normally live in Panama or Costa Rica and this one is thought to be the first to be found in our waterways.

 
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