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no it's alot darker than those he is really dark olive green

Color is variable enough in this species that I wouldn't use it as a reliable character.

we thought it was one of these

synodontis acanthomias
synodontis bastian
synodontis shall
Mystus leucophasis

It is not any of he species that you listed. Mystus leucophasis is jet black. It is S. nigrita.

Mark

it doesn't look like any of the pictures of S. nigrita on this site

Hi!

S.nigrita is a garbage species containing at least 2 different ones...
this is also nigrita...
S.nigrita

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Mats

a lot of those pics in the cat-elog are of juvenile fish. yours is an adult. adult fish will often display darker duller patterning with reduced contrast.

it could be an S.eupterus
perhaps?

Silurus is a fish taxonomist, that doesn't mean he's always right, but he knows his stuff. i would probably agree with him. i had an S.nigrita once, and it did look like yours.

Hello,

I am still struggling with the difference between S. Nigrita and S. Robbianus. This fish looks more like Robbianus to me, but I certainly wouldn't argue with HH

Can you explain the main differences between these two Synodontis and why this one is Nigrita vs. Robbianus.

Thanks,
Andy

@cefire do a search for robbianus and youll find a thread by erwin about Nigerian synos where this topic is discussed i think to remember...

This is most likely a S.Eupterus hydrid.