The Ultimate ORINOCENSIS ID Guide

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Rio Verde, Brazil
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very small drainage off the Rio Orinoco near San Jose de Tiznados, Venezuela
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dang, i got to say,

im loving this thread hats off.

i would have never expected that many variations of one species of cichla non the less they do exisit in quite spread from each other and all.


BUT;

lets cut to the chase..

we need fugu to get us some of them polyspot orino...!! hahah.
 
jcardona1;3222688; said:
^ just like that, thats how you tell a rio negro apart from venz/columbian IMO. rio negros have super thick, perfect round gold rings and three clean round ocelli. venz/columbians typically dont have this thick gold ring, and the spots appear a little "messy" and can sometimes be a diamond shape...

ive seen some rio negros with very messy blotchs. the rio negro is a very very very long big river, stretching from the center of the amazon- parts of colombia. I would think its possible that there would be a slight diffrence amoung rio negro orinos from one end of the river to the other. would you by any chance happen to know where in the rio negro those perfectly circular shaped orinos were caught?
 
CichlaRyan;3227146;3227146 said:
ive seen some rio negros with very messy blotchs. the rio negro is a very very very long big river, stretching from the center of the amazon- parts of colombia. I would think its possible that there would be a slight diffrence amoung rio negro orinos from one end of the river to the other. would you by any chance happen to know where in the rio negro those perfectly circular shaped orinos were caught?
yeah i mentioned that in another thread, that even rio negros can look very different. IMO, the ones further down the Negro closer to the amazonas are the ones with the perfect round spots, but these are just my observations.

the close they get to the Orinoco, the more it appears they start to mix up. and also, take a look at the rio verde orinos, those are from south brazil and look a lot like venz/columbia orinos...
 
jcardona1;3227223; said:
yeah i mentioned that in another thread, that even rio negros can look very different. IMO, the ones further down the Negro closer to the amazonas are the ones with the perfect round spots, but these are just my observations.

the close they get to the Orinoco, the more it appears they start to mix up. and also, take a look at the rio verde orinos, those are from south brazil and look a lot like venz/columbia orinos...


now were on the same page. ill send you a pic of a rio negro thats really close to the colombia border.
 
Any guess as what kind of Orinos are these??

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