Microsynodontis sp. Malebo Pool

Stan · Post by **Stan** » 15 Mar 2012, 03:00

I tried to take some pics of them, as I promised. Here are the only two, where you can see something... Hope, I'm in the right section here.

Post by **Silurus** » 15 Mar 2012, 06:06

I always thought these were .

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 15 Mar 2012, 11:19

I have the same species, and thought of them as that name too.

Jools

The.Dark.One · Post by **The.Dark.One** » 15 Mar 2012, 12:44

Silurus wrote:I always thought these were
Microsynodontis polli
.

Me too

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 15 Mar 2012, 14:22

Our Distribution/Occurrence data here seem to indicate that they are in the Niger river, and this matches both Fishbase and CoF.

However, looking at Fishbase's occurrence records, it shows a record of fish collected by Boulenger in "Stanley Pool", (now called Malebo Pool), and these are identified by none other than Ng, H.H (Which means Silurus). Another occurrence is "Kinsuka, rapides à la sortie du Pool" [also identified by HH], and one is "Ndjili Kongo-Ubangui" [again, id by HH].

So I'm going to add "Malebo Pool" to the occurrences of this species. If there is objection to this, I'll just remove it again.

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Mats

Stan · Post by **Stan** » 21 Mar 2012, 01:19

oh, ok. So it's a polly. I got them only 1,5 weeks ago and they seemed not to match to polly, as they have no vertical stripes. Thanks for ID!

rommer · Post by **rommer** » 21 Mar 2012, 07:04

My microsynodontissen where also identified as polly. They look all different. I will try to get some pics to show them..

Post by **Birger** » 23 Mar 2012, 15:38

oh, ok. So it's a polly. I got them only 1,5 weeks ago and they seemed not to match to polly, as they have no vertical stripes.

If you look at the pics of a juvenile it does have the same spotted pattern as yours...may be as simple as yours still need to mature...yours look to be still fairly small.

Not all species are described (all those described are from the Lower Guinean Bioregion) if you had to pick a described species that would be it. That said I would think one found in the Niger and one collected from the Malebo pool could very well be "different" but similar looking fish. There is still much to learn about these fish and it is not even certain how many species and how far they occur into the Congo Drainage.

Birger

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