I'd me please

[jeff.l]

I won this guy tonight at my local club meeting was labelled as a L049







He is between 3.5 and 4 inches long
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[pleco_breeder]

Definitely Peckoltia, and my best guess would be

Peckoltia vittata

.

Larry

[Acanthicus]

Hi,

better call it Peckoltia cf. vittata / L 15, because the true identity of this species is not clear yet.

[Jools]

Hi Daniel,

Not aware of the background to this. Perhaps as the description is in German you know more. Care to share?

Cheers,

Jools

[jeff.l]

Any idea on the sex, I would love to breed them

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[pleco_breeder]

Possibly female, but is too small to tell for sure. Should be easy to tell when it's grown another inch.

Larry

[jeff.l]

How big do they get?

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[pleco_breeder]

I have a female that's about 5 inches with the caudal fin, TL. They grow rather quickly compared to a lot of other species though. She was less than 3 inches when I got her as a wild import in March.

Larry

[Acanthicus]

Hi Jools,

as far as I know there is no holotype existing anymore of P. vittata. The 5 left syntypes seem to belong to different species from different locations, so we can´t be sure about the ID. But L 15 looks like the original drawing of Chaetostomus vittatus, so it could be this one, that why I said better use the cf.

[Raph]

Hi,

If you have syntypes, then there is no holotype...

Cheers
Raph.

[Jools]

Interesting. I guess someone will just have to re-describe it and deposit a new holotype...

Cheers,

Jools

[Raph]

Hi,

No, you will just need to fix the lectotype and paralectotypes from these syntypes . Then you can redescribe and fix type locality.

Cheers
Raph