My best guess is Synodontis courteti


According to the revision by Poll, the fish cannot be S. courteti. The ratio of eye diameter and the length of the nose is wrong. The fish scotcat posted a picture of looks like a proper S. caudovittata, but the unknown fish doesn't have the correct body ...

vigs wrote:It is S. eupterus. Some time ago Kochetov named this form Synodontis galinae, but it's a deformed S. eupterus. This kind of thing can happen when you breed hybrids...

After Ferraris the real name is S. euptera! In his checklist S. galinae belongs to "Species inquirendae".

Prboy wrote: - and the presence of only four brown vertical stripes on the tail fin is most peculiar
In Identifying Corydoradinae by Fuller & Evers,
the two photo's of C128 shows four brown vertical stripes to the caudal fin.

No, they have either six of seven stripes. The difference in the ...

First fish could be C. stenocephalus or C-78 I guess.

Second picture could be C-102 or C-128, but there's something about the brown colout and the markings on the caudal fin that confuses me.

C. stenocephalus does appear to be the best match for the first fish in my opinion as well. All five ...

Can anyone help me identify these two species, supposedly from Peru?

Apparently, Erwin is now publishing new LDA numbers in Aqualog news. Here's his output for 2006:


I'm afraid that information is not accurate. The last LDA number, LDA 102, was published in the last issue of Das Aquarium (12/2005). It was told in the same issue that the numbers would continue in ...