It definitely wasn’t a satisfying answer.

Finally got an answer from the fish store! The pleco guy has been out with covid, which explains a lot. “One of our distributors shipped it as a wormline but it’s not. It’s the same genus just a variation. It’s peckoltia sp. the exact L number probably hasn’t been described yet. Possibly it’s also a ...

Definitely looks like your L147.

Hi H_M, Your plec looks to be Ancistomus L147. Take care, Chuck Not doubting you, just curious how you can tell it apart from all the other little dotty guys. That was one of the (many) I had it narrowed down to. I’m going to call the store tomorrow and see if they have any idea. But they’re the one ...

Like the title says, it was sold as a wormline. That’s pretty much the only peckoltia I can rule out.

Is it even possible to tell visually? So many peckoltias have basically this same pattern.