what am I?

[torbanite]

..how did you work it out Sherlock?

"99.4% of my DNA in this location" made me think of our relatives the Chimps => Africa..
Pic of big ass river suggested Congo river a.k.a. Zaire river.
Pic of fish suggests ..ichthys =>

Zaireichthys

& the species was just a (lucky) guess

New puzzle.. (for those not nursing hangovers).

i) An Anchovy with no feet.?
ii) My diet is mainly terrestrial beetles.
iii) One way to catch me would be to dig a hole and fish in the resulting puddle.

What am I?

[Marc van Arc]

Channallabes apus

[torbanite]

Channallabes apus

Well, that one didn't last long
Correct!

[L number Banana]

Fresh update to start the year
Previously Listed Catfish

[Marc van Arc]

A give away:

Especially in this time of year and in these white conditions, you could easily create my common name (the * part not included).
I'm the huge one btw.
I'll give you 15 minutes

[Richard B]

Pterygoplichthys ambrosettii

?

[Marc van Arc]

Richard,
The "huge" is in my common name, not in my length.
It's like Virgin .... Store

[Richard B]

Baryancistrus sp(l115)

- i was going to put this first but went for overall size

[Marc van Arc]

Never mind, you're still the winner

[Richard B]

Hurrah!

New fish:

I look like a miniature 'Mr Hanky' & as such i might be a little "sensitive"

[torbanite]

I think it must be

Psammphiletria delicata

"Mr. Hanky"?.. I see what you mean, but wish I hadn't

[Richard B]

Winner!

Well done & over to you

[torbanite]

Previously Listed Catfish

i) A god Asterix might recognize and another in Boots of Chinese Plastic collide with an ichthyologist to name this catfish.

[L number Banana]

Pseudacanthicus histrix

I can squint and make the first and second clue fit but no luck with the an ichthyologist bit.
Can find the god he frequently invokes though. Sounds a little like Tatia

[torbanite]

Pseudacanthicus histrix

Nope

Can find the god he frequently invokes though. Sounds a little like Tatia

No.
ii) think more in terms of Asterix's 'type locality' to get the name of the first god (which doesn't sound like Tatia).

[Marc van Arc]

Is it Belenus?

[torbanite]

Is it Belenus?

No. But you are on the right trajectory.

iii) I don't know if the god you need was ever mentioned in an Asterix comic, but Asterix ought to know about him (because he's a Gaul). The one you want is a common component of catfish names and has been mentioned more than once in this game (only 118 pages to search ).

Once you've got that component of the name, there are still two other parts to figure out

[Marc van Arc]

By Glanis!! I think I've found it

[Marc van Arc]

There's no such thing as a Pretendoglanis (Brachyrhamdia imitator?).
Several Haras, but no glanis.
There is a Myoglanis, but not in the Clog.......

Do the 2 gods form the genus name and the person the species name?

[torbanite]

Do the 2 gods form the genus name and the person the species name?

iv) One god appears in the genus, the other in the species name
v) The ichthyologist appears in the genus.

[L number Banana]

Horaglanis krishnai

?
Was the second god Gaul or no?
If no, this one fits

[Marc van Arc]

Horaglanis krishnai

?
Was the second god Gaul or no?
If no, this one fits

The two gods are Krishna and Glanis; scientist Hora: this should be it
Good riddle btw!

[torbanite]

Horaglanis krishnai

?
Was the second god Gaul or no?
If no, this one fits

Hora (ichthyologist) + glanis (gaulish god) + krishna (Hindu god, mentioned in lyrics to "Boots of Chinese Plastic" by the Pretenders).

Your turn L num!

[L number Banana]

Good one for sure! I think I looked at every pseudo, para etc in the Cat-elog, thanks Marc!
Did you notice it was almost a triple-god with Hora/Horus

Geeze, I'm out of practice but here goes....

Who needs a huge instrument that you can't even use to put you lipstick on with?
It wasn't the guy
Who was watching the sky
When the bombs made him pick up a pen.
Find him and cobble the species together.

I'll update when I get back to the ftp...

[torbanite]

It wasn't the guy
Who was watching the sky

Not watching the sky... watching the ground.. was he upside down then?.... Mochokidae?

When the bombs made him pick up a pen.

A bomb rearranges things.. like ..like .. an anagram!
(quill) pens could be latin pinniculi.
pinniculi is annoyingly close to being an anagram of "lucipinnis" & is if I borrow the 's' from the bombs. (and use the remaining bomb to rearrange pinniculi) we get:

Synodontis lucipinnis

No plausible explanation for lipstick or huge instruments though...
.. but after a couple more beers I'll surely think of something..

[L number Banana]

If you have many more beer and you may resemble this fish, at least in posture

Synodontis lucipinnis

Nope but marks for creativity.

Genus =
Who needs a huge instrument that you can't even use to put your lipstick on with?
And what's slang for his/her occupation?

Species =
It wasn't the guy
Who was watching the sky,
When the bombs made him pick up a pen.
Find him and cobble the species together.

This person had two major occupations. An event occurred that made him change from one to the other. The first occupation doesn't matter so much as he's known for his second.
The last line of my original clue contains an occupational and grammatical clue pertaining to the species.

[torbanite]

Chilo.. lips
H. E. Bates.. Journalist, (shoe) warehouse clerk, author.

Chiloglanis batesii

[L number Banana]

Oh man, my clues suck

Chiloglanis batesii

Nope. My fish is from another continent and has no keepers. One of his pictures looks like he's about to be served for dinner! We've only seen this genus once before.Previously Listed Catfish

The genus is a slang word for an occupation. A very peaceful occupation that one can do as an amateur or at certain ideal locations in the world. They use several sciences and almost always require a huge instrument that can't be moved.

The species is one letter off a famous writer that used to be a physicist. You got the 'cobble together' clue, now remember how catfish are often named, especially ones of certain geographic locals..This physicist might see this fish if he went for a weekend trip!

[MatsP]

So, I'm thinking "stargazer" -> Astroblepus, but I can't for my life figure out which of the something-i names matches an author formerly scientist... Which could be that I'm on the wrong track, or that I'll probably kick myself when I see the answer because it's so obvious when you know... [Obviously, both at the same time is also possible]

--
Mats

[L number Banana]

MatsP:

So, I'm thinking "stargazer" -> Astroblepus,

Smart cookie.

The species clue:
My fish is from another continent and has no keepers. One of his pictures looks like he's about to be served for dinner! We've only seen this genus once before.
The species is one letter off a famous writer that used to be a physicist.
torbanite got the 'cobble together' clue, now remember how catfish are often named, especially ones of certain geographic locals..This physicist might see this fish if he went for a weekend trip!
We're looking for a name that is one letter off the writer and an object. The writer would have to stay on the west coast of a continent and go north almost to the equator, about 10 degrees or so. He couldn't walk that far, he would wear out his shoes.

The writer isn't that important if you have the other species clues. If one knew of the writer, he would have popped to mind but unlike someone like Hemmingway, most people would not have heard of him.