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Estancia Rincon de Pacheco at Rio Cuareim, Artigas, Uruguay
November 26, 2006
Yellow line is the Uruguay-Brazil border. Eye elevation = 25,000 feet.
GPS Coordinates: South 30 degrees 40.349' West 056 degrees 10.854'. Elevation: 418'.
Collecting to a rapt audience.
Small pools at Etancia Rincon de Pacheco, a very large ranch on the Brazil border. These pools were supposed to have at least 5 or 6 species of pikes but we only collected C. scotti and C. cf. lepidota. Of course, the water was chilly and we had not slept in 72 hours, so we did not give it our best effort. The bottom of these ponds were very rocky and being a biped was no fun.
Our conveyance in Uruguay - a Brazilian made Chevy.
Rhea americana are a very common sight in rural Uruguay
Gymnogeophagus sp. La Pedrera. This may not be a different species from the ones from Ao. Catalan or Ao. Macedo or Rio Cuareim, but they all look so different, we chose to call them by their collection locality.
Australoheros cf. facetus - an odd sight to see the facetus group species in the middle of nowhere.
This habitat, however, supports a bigger population of A. scitulus.
Photos by J. Cardwell, S. Jack and V. Kutty
Fish species found in the ponds around the estancia:
- Crenicichla lepidota
- C. scotti
- Gymno. sp. La Pedrera (gymnogenys group)
- Hoplias malabaricus
- Diapoma cf. speculiferum
- Pseudocorinopoma doriae
- Astyanax sp. Blue
- Astyanax sp. Bar Tail
- Hyphessobrycon cf. meridionalis
- Gymno. sp. Catalan (rhabdotus group)
- Australoheros scitulum
- Australoheros facetum (one of the few habitats that support 2 Australoheros species)
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