What species of Tachysurus is this?

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What species of Tachysurus is this?

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Assuming I got the genus right, any views? Fish was exported from Vietnam to Sweden.

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Silurus wrote:I'd say .
Cool, I'll go with that, thanks,


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I agree with the others. I have one and they are a brand new species. Not a whole lot known.
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Does it stay within the size parameters of other Tachysurus sp.? Very attractive fish.
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Fishbase lists it as 69mm SL - so I expect it's not growing massive.

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Compared to the other congeners, all of the striped Tachysurus (T. argentivittatus, T. longispinalis, T. spilotus and T. virgatus) are quite small (no larger than 9 cm SL). Tachysurus argentivittatus appears to be the smallest of the lot (it seems to grow no bigger than 4-5 cm SL).
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