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Now you are just being silly.

River Hi Have now dug out the piranha records and find I have caught ten different sorts. Whether they are all counted as separate species depends on which taxanomic "expert" you believe, Its a bit like trout used to be in the nineteenth century. Nowadays ferox, seatrout, gillaroo, brown and sonaghan are all treated as subspecies of trout. Latimeria and I spent some time trying to make sense of the nomenclature but gave up as life is too short. Taxonomy is only a man-made system after all. Anyway, here they are River Napo, Oxbow lake Red-eyed, white belly spilopleura Amazon delta, White-eyed, red belly nattereri River Xingu Red-eyed black tail "Preta" rhombeus R Xingu Gold-cheeked White-eyed "Camari" serrulatus River Tele Pires Go[d-cheeked red-eyed "Shibito" humeralis R Tele Piires Red-eyed spotteg telepiri R Aquidauna White-eyed yellow headed paraguayensis R Aquidauna Speckled "Catarina" maculatus Pantanal lagoon Spotted aqipensis I don' t know how many of the specific names are valid ! ! I had the Xingu "Preta" to 4 lb and three other different sorts to 2 lb most of the rest were average about 4 oz Piranhas are the big problem if you are trying to catch something else, They make excellent soup. Every cook in Brazil makes the best piranha soup in the world -and each is unique Here is the 4 lb black it wentback but some of the others did not the red-bellied bunch made soup for everyone on the ha cienda