ID Please.

Dude · Post by **Dude** » 09 Oct 2007, 05:48

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 09 Oct 2007, 09:09

One of the "lookalikes" that is similar to - e.g. L80, L38, L377, etc. Have a look at .

Unfortunately, there are several of these fish that look fairly similar, and it's really only easy to tell them apart if you know where they come from, since they haven't been scientifically described, so there's no rules on what makes it which one.

Maybe someone else can come up with a more precise answer. Any idea where it was exported from?

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Mats

KISSSSOLO · Post by **KISSSSOLO** » 09 Oct 2007, 21:56

Hi, im not too sure but they look very much like my L199
hope this helps,

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 09 Oct 2007, 22:13

They have a similar pattern to L199, but to me, they have more of the Peckoltia body shape than a Hypancistrus, but I've been wrong on those things before.

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Mats

apistomaster · Post by **apistomaster** » 09 Oct 2007, 22:27

A Peckoltia species would be my guess. The fish I used as my avatar was an on line purchase and sold as L199 but was a P. vittata to me. It's banded pattern was made up of more evenly sized bands than your fish but as Mats says there are so many similar fish.

drpleco · Post by **drpleco** » 10 Oct 2007, 15:14

I agree...it doesn't look hypancistrus-y to me. What name did you buy it under?

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 15 Oct 2007, 21:43

Hi!

They look similar to Peckoltia sp L278 from Venezuela

eventually it could be a Peckoltia sp L377 from brasil

it is the 2 closest species I could come across!
It would interesting to know the origin of the export, Colombia or Brasil as it would lead us to a single species

Cheers
Yann

Dude · Post by **Dude** » 18 Oct 2007, 02:02

drgold wrote:I agree...it doesn't look hypancistrus-y to me. What name did you buy it under?

It was labelled as unknown. drgold,what is the plec in your avatar?

ID Please.

ID Please.

l199