serrasalmus_collector Posted on Apr 26 2003, 07:41 AM .....My mendinia was identified. Sorry for not being more accurated. I have a diamond of the spilo/complex. My mendinia resembles the fish alot but is longer and more compressed, simular to elongotis but not quite as slender. The fish has a curved up lower jaw like the the one in this picture, and yellow eyes. The person who identified it, sayed the yellow eyes, and body compression were characteristics of this fish. If you would like a pic. I can get you one. I have a few contacts that lead directly to South American... Looks like when I started collection Piranha and showed them to a friend of mine.. I never realized she traveled so much to Various countries.......
That brings one more question I have... Don't consider me stupid.. I truely don't know. Are there 2 species of piranhas in Africa. I have been told of them by several different people. Once says they can get them for me, but will cost over a grand. The fish were discribbed as being pitch black with Blue lips and teeth like a gopher... I haven't found anything on the internet to match this discription....The person saw my fish and said I had nothing that even remotely resembled this fish... They kept telling me about the protruding teeth.. Let me know if such a fish excists, and if you can I legally have it in Michigan???