Corydoras ID please

mad scientist · Post by **mad scientist** » 31 May 2005, 12:05

Came across these pictures and they were labelled "Corydoras sp."

Does anyone have any idea what they are?

Photo credits: Basil Aquarium, Taiwan

Cheers,

Alan

Post by **Coryman** » 31 May 2005, 13:35

Not without knowing roughly where they came from, there are a couple of species from Peru and Colombia and at least three from southern Brazil/Argentina that they could be.

Any ideas where they were exported from?

Ian

mad scientist · Post by **mad scientist** » 31 May 2005, 16:35

Hi Ian,
I have absolutely no idea where these guys come from cos they are not mine, but taken from a Taiwanese website. First look I thought they are C. aurofrenatus. Would that be a possiblity?

Alan

Post by **Coryman** » 01 Jun 2005, 01:36

No C aurofrenatus have a long snout and are a little closer to C. ellisae, these look a little like C. carlae from Argentina and also a little like C7 (C. cf steindachneri) from Peru.

Ian

mad scientist · Post by **mad scientist** » 01 Jun 2005, 05:02

But the picture of the specimen from your website doesn't look like a long-nosed species.

By the way, are those specimens in the following picture the true C. steindachneri from Brazil? Or also C7 from Peru?

For the Taiwanese pictures it seems like C7 is more probable since we hardly have any Corydoras sp. exported from Argentina, Uraguay and Paraguay.