Brachyrhamdia sp?

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Brachyrhamdia sp?

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What Brachyrhamdia sp. is this?

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Post by MatsP »

I'm not saying you're wrong Dave, but it says on B. meesi that it's similar to B. marthae, which then says that one of the keys for telling them apart is a stripe through the eye. This fish doesn't seem to have such a stripe.

On the other hand, the third picture on the Cat-eLog page for B. meesi isn't showing a stripe through the eye either, so I guess it's more of a misleading key than wrong identification. Or perhaps that the stripe isn't always very clear...

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Post by Dave Rinaldo »

I'm more often wrong than right :oops:
In B. marthae the dorsal fin marking is larger and spreads across the entire upper section of the fin.
The pics seem to show this character.(?)
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I will try to get better pictures, but it's impossible right now because the fish is hiding under the bogwood :roll: . Here's some more pictures.

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