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Can anyone ID these elegans type corys for me please?

Answering my own post

Do you think they are bilineatus?

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/im ... ge_id=3000

These come as C. elegans from Manaus, Brazil but clearly they are something else. I keep and breed them and have given some to Erik Schiller in Germany who recently published an article on them where he calls them Corydoras sp. leopard due to the nice colouration of the fry.

I along with Erik Schiller, Carsten Goll, and Hans-Georg Evers discussed this fish at length while at a BSSW meeting in Hanover at the beginning of September.

I kept and bred this fish in the early 1980's and for a long time thought it to be C. pestai Holly, 1940, but because of the loss of Holly's original material it would be almost impossible to be certain it was one and the same species. After the discussion in Hanover it was decided that because of the uncertainty, this species would be better placed given the code number CW044

Ian

Thank you very much.

dave.h: Could you send your pictures to webmaster at planetcatfish dot com (perhaps cc to mats at planetcatfish), we could add this as a new species.

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Mats

MatsP wrote:dave.h: Could you send your pictures to webmaster at planetcatfish dot com (perhaps cc to mats at planetcatfish), we could add this as a new species.

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Mats

No problem, email sent.

MatsP wrote:dave.h: Could you send your pictures to webmaster at planetcatfish dot com (perhaps cc to mats at planetcatfish), we could add this as a new species.

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Mats

Hi Mats- from Ian Fuller's response above, the data on the C. pestai page should probably be reassigned as CW044 as well? Ian identified my "elegans" as pestai two years ago, before reassigning it to a CW number. The pictures for pestai on the site came from Corydoras World.

Carp37 wrote:Hi Mats- from Ian Fuller's response above, the data on the C. pestai page should probably be reassigned as CW044 as well? Ian identified my "elegans" as pestai two years ago, before reassigning it to a CW number. The pictures for pestai on the site came from Corydoras World.

Good point. Which makes it a Jools issue. I will post in "bugs" to alert Jools.

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Mats