venezulean species id's please

[tai haku]

Hi everyone
These aren't captives I'm afraid so please forgive me if this is inappropriate but I thought monsterfishkeepers was the best place to confirm ids on these. I just got back from a holiday in Venezuela where piranha fishing seems to be a standard activity on a lot of the nature tours.

These were caught in an orrinoco tributary and I think these are Pygocentrus cariba?

and I believe these are perhaps Serrasalmus gibbus but I'm not convinced?

and this was caught in the Llanos wetlands - I think its another P. cariba?

They were all returned alive.

Thanks

Tai

 

[jp80911]

first two are not caribes, maybe Scapularis , the last one is caribe and a very nice one. the middle two are rhombeus

 

[JoeDizzleMPLS]

first fish looks like s. eigenmanni

 

[JoeDizzleMPLS]

oh, and i agree with jp that the middle pics are rhoms and the last pic is of a cariba

 

[Diogenes]

first fish looks like s. eigenmanni

S eigenmanni and P. caribe

are both native to Venezuela and yeah those are rhoms...nice ones.

 

[luckydemonz3]

did you bring back any of these guys

 

[tai haku]

Thanks all most helpful, I've been browsing the web looking at images for a while and still got most of them wrong! none brought home, they all went back from whence they came.

 

[jp80911]

first fish looks like s. eigenmanni

I was thinking about that too, it has the black humeral spot

 

[jp80911]

the color on that caribe is just ..... I'm speechless

 

[Dankzville]

the color on that caribe is just ..... I'm speechless

i know and that blue diamond ish lookjing one is just sick too