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It has always been mystery to me how make difference between several anaspidoglanis species and auchenoglanis species.I know auchenoglanis occidentalis for sure but others seem quite the same to me.I´m sure that pictures in planetcatfish catE-log showing various anaspidoglanis spp. aren`t correct.From the pictures it is hard to tell the difference.They have been taken mostly from aqualog african catfish book.Aqualog catfish picture books(all l-numbers...) has been famous containing very much errors.Pictures don`t show always right species.I have 4 Anaspidoglanis cf. macrostoma.Where can i get some scientific papers (revision)or advices to identify my catfishes?Few years ago i had 6 of those and to me it seemed that i had three different species.They did have some little differences in shape and colours/spots. I´m quite sure that i had different species butt what they were?

Mika,

I may have what you want. Email me.

When and by whom was the genus Anaspidoglanis erected? Is it generally recognized as valid? (FB, if I recall ccorrectly, still uses Paraauchenoglanis.)

<i>Anaspidoglanis</i> was erected by Teugels, Risch, de Vos & Thys van den Audenaerde (1991). Type species is <i>Auchenoglanis macrostoma</i>.
Only two included species:
<i>A. boutchangai</i>
<i>A. macrostoma</i>

Silurus wrote:<i>Anaspidoglanis</i> was erected by Teugels, Risch, de Vos & Thys van den Audenaerde (1991). Type species is <i>Auchenoglanis macrostoma</i>.
Only two included species:
<i>A. boutchangai</i>
<i>A. macrostoma</i>

The Planet Catfish Catalog lists:

Anaspidoglanis balayi
Anaspidoglanis guttatus
Anaspidoglanis macrostoma

So the first two are classified incorrectly, yes?

Dinyar

Dinyar,

A check of Teugels et al. (1991) shows that both <i>balayi</i> and <i>guttatus</i> are <i>Parauchenoglanis</i>, not <i>Anaspidoglanis</i>.

Bugger.



That's what I get for not double-checking aqualog sourced IDs.

Jools

Don't sweat it. It happens to everybody. Even me sometimes.