Pristobrycon careospinus Fink & Machado-Allison, 1992 is a species of fish of the subfamily Serrasalminae which includes the "caribes" or "pirañas". This species is endemic of Venezuela

Venezuela

Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...

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Habitat

Habits mainly in black or acidic waters in Amazonas State of Venezuela (High Orinoco). Type locality is a lagoon near San Fernando de Atabapo

San Fernando de Atabapo

San Fernando de Atabapo was the capital city of Venezuela's Amazonas state until the early 1900s. The population in 1997 was approximately 5,000....

 in the confluence of the Atabapo and Orinoco rivers in Venezuela.

Description

This is a beautiful fish (series of pictures in:www.pecesdevenezuela.com). Body discoid with the anterodorsal profile slightly curved in a "S" shape. Head robust and wide. Snout blunt. Preanal spine and ectopterygoid teeth absent. Adipose fin wide. Head silver with methalic orange to red at mandibular region. Iris red. Body with greenish laterally and mixture of orange and red at the abdominal area. Body covered with round or oval black spots. Fins bright red. and

Behaviour

Predatory fish. Consuming smaller fish and attacking fins, juveniles include aquatic insects and crustacean

Crustacean

Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...

s (shrimps). Occasionally included fruits from the surrounding gallery forest. This is a solitary species. Never seen in schools.