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Hypostomus Borellii?

Anyone?

A collection locality would help.

Oops, sorry, but the fish itself was not collected but bought at a pet shop.

Juan Felipe Z. wrote:Oops, sorry, but the fish itself was not collected but bought at a pet shop.

It is almost certainly wild-caught tho', so if you can ask the shop where it came from (even if it's just the place it was shipped to the shop from, would help eliminate candidates).

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Mats

I identified the fish as a Hypostomus ancistroides!

Thank you all!!

Juan Felipe Z. wrote:I identified the fish as a Hypostomus ancistroides!

I keep this species myself, and it is clearly not Hypostomus ancistroides. The distance between dorsal fin - adipose and adipose - caudal fin is to small. H. ancistroides is much more elongated, I guess the most elongated species known.
The headshape doesn´t fit neither.

Acanthicus wrote:The headshape doesn´t fit neither.

I didn't see any difference from the fish's head in my picture with the fish's head photo of the site...

Could you explain?

Hi,

the head is just not long enough. Compare the length between the eye and the tip of the snout. The head of H. ancistroides is flatter and longer.

You're right, it is not even a ancistroides.

And what are the differences between the picture of my fish with Hypostomus plecostomus, punctatus and plecostomoides?

It looks very similar to my Squaliforma cf. emarginata L011, L035, L108, L116, Red Fin Thresher Pleco, Thresher Pleco. Could it be a similiar species?

No, it is a Hypostomus, not a Squaliforma.

Really reminds one Squaliformes, but this pleco is more common in the Amazon region that is their place of origin, here in my area we have available the most common pleco from the basin of the Parana and Paraguay river and all tributaries, especially Tiete, Paranapanema, large, etc. ...

I bet the lower caudal ray is as long as the upper one, not much longer, right? That rules out Squaliforma.