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Can anyone id this fish;

look similar...it looks familiar.
I hope someone more experienced than I can help.
Martin

Hi Andrew,

how does the dorsal fin look like ?!
With L 16 (and other Oligancistrus) it should be big like a sail and connected to the small adipose fin.

By the way I'm doubting that the second pic of L 16 in the Cat-eLog really shows a L 16. The dorsal fin is too low and the connection to the adipose fin is not pronounced enough.

Cheers,

Sorry, i don't know about the Dorsal fin, it is not my fish, i will try to get some more photographs.

Definitely something from that group. I would say, just as a quick guess, spectra murinus, but mouth shots would help.

Jon wrote:Definitely something from that group. I would say, just as a quick guess, spectra murinus, but mouth shots would help.

Thanks guys, spectra murinus is the best match i have seen, I am trying to get some more pictures of the fish.

I think that is

Matt

is what it seems like to me as the Spectracanthicus Murinus doesn,t really have spots now does he

[Mod edit: Use clog-tags --Mats]

has small spots, just like the original posters picture (although the fish in the above picture appears to be partly stress-colouration)

In comparisonm S. sp(L254) has much larger spots:


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Mats

Can you get a ventral image?

Matt

Hi!

I doubt it is Spectracanthicus murinus as these have a white seam on the dorsal and caudal fin which look totally absent on this speciemen!!

I much likely to think this is indeed ...which look a lot more like yours
http://www.transfish.de/LCode/L315.jpg
By the way the first fish picture on the L315 page is S. murinus
Cheers
Yann

Some more pictures, hope they help;

Looks like Yann is probably correct.