Tigerfish

These African fish are found in many rivers and lakes on the continent and are fierce predators with distinctive, proportionally large teeth.

Another famous species, simply called the tigerfish (Hydrocynus vittatus), is commonly found in the southernly Okavango Delta, and the Zambezi River, and also in the two biggest lakes along the Zambezi, Lake Kariba which borders Zimbabwe and Zambia, Kabombo River in Zambia and Cabora Bassa in Mozambique, and finally in the Jozini dam in South Africa.

In the western gamefishing world, Hydrocynus vittatus is considered Africa's equivalent of the South American piranha,[2] though it belongs to a completely different zoological family.

Like the piranha, individual tigerfish have interlocking, razor-sharp teeth, along with streamlined, muscular bodies, and are extremely aggressive and capable predators who often hunt in groups.

[citation needed] Several species of Coius (or Datnioides, depending on the taxonomic authority) have been referred to as "tigerfish", particularly in fishkeeping books and magazines.