Synodontis eburneensis or S. bastiani?

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Synodontis eburneensis or S. bastiani?

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According to Fishbase the name <I>Synodontis eburneensis</I> is a junior synonym of <I>Synodontis bastiani</I>. Anyone know if this is generally accepted? I'm thinking on renaming as necessary in the cat-elog.

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Post by Silurus »

The synonymy was performed in Paugy & Roberts (1992) without any justification. The pictures in Poll's revision show two very obviously different species, so I would think that they are distinct.
Besides, Tyson has been known to lump things without looking at them carefully...
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