Please Help ID these spotted Cories with caudal stripes

btpmsi · Post by **btpmsi** » 23 Apr 2005, 07:46

All,

If you surf in here:
http://www.gonewildperu.com/Aquarium/co ... ydoras.htm

and scroll down to #059,175,231,130,121 then you can see the five fish I have received with a bunch of Killies I imported last month. The exporter doesn't say what these are. Is there anyone here who might take a stab at IDing these five?

TIA,

Brian Perkins

chef · Post by **chef** » 23 Apr 2005, 10:41

hi brian quite an interesting batch.
well with a bit of detective work this is what i've come up with
#59 is c120 (no common name as yet)
#175 and #231 are c. trilineatus
#130 and #121 could well be c120 aswell but not as strongly patterned. all these fish do come from peru so it all tallys up. i know ian (coryman) has bred c120 and you can findmore info on his site CORYCATS.COM, hope this is of some help

stuart

btpmsi · Post by **btpmsi** » 23 Apr 2005, 18:27

Stuart,

Thanks for the quick reply. I am trying to organize a collecting trip down in Peru with this bunch in August, and I am particularly interested in the Killies and Cories that are to be found down in the very South of Peru. Hopefully I can return with lots of both!

Thanks for the lead on C120, it is a very nice fish. They seem to be the smallest, on average, of the batch I got. Do they stay smaller, or are these just younger fish than the others?

Thanks,

chef · Post by **chef** » 24 Apr 2005, 00:51

i belive that they don,t get thatbig ians were about 45 millimetres around 2 inches at the very biggest and they are quite rare so good luck and all the best

stuart

Post by **Coryman** » 24 Apr 2005, 13:37

175 could be C. acrensis.

Ian

mad scientist · Post by **mad scientist** » 24 Apr 2005, 15:01

Hmm... Ian, that's an interesting observation.

It does seem to fit Nijssen's original description for being "closely related to the sympatric C. trilineatus but lacking in the zig-zag line at the junctiure of the dorsolateral and ventrolateral scutes. "