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I'm trying to studie some fishes of river Kwanza, near Luanda, Angola, and yesterday in a restaurante near the river I saw a cafish that I couldn't identify... https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9Yon-lyeHVE/ ... 08_600.jpg

who can help me?

I need help with the one on the left side

Hi Marco1980,

There's not much to go on from your photo to get to species level. But I think it looks like an .

GBIF lists three species collected in Angola.

• Amphilius lentiginosus
• Amphilius platychir
• Amphilius uranoscopus

Only has been collected near your location.

Cheers, Eric

@Birger, any thoughts?

How about a young ? Need more pics to even get close...

Jools

Hard to tell for me too. My first thought is big-eyed African catfish aka Chrysichthys genus.

Hard to say from that photo, but it reminds me of my during its rapid grown spurt over the first two years I had it, where it grew from ~3cm SL to ~20cm SL (now ~25cm SL and nearly six years old).

Just a wild shot in the dark but could it be a ? Although, I can't really see the origin of the adipose fine.

Hi,

After reading, comparing photos, see the geographic destribution I voted to for Amphilius maybe A. uranoscopus, because it's the one that was found in river Kwanza, like all Amphilius it has dorsal eyes, ... Thank you all for the help.
In the same photo there are also Chrysichthys nigrodigitatus
Best regards

What I thought of was a young clarias as soon as I saw it.
Regardless of species it needs some growth to make an ID I think.

Birger

Very late in on this one but would be interested to know what it turned out to be cos what it looks like, it cant be, simply because of the location - a very young chrysichthys graueri, so next choice would be ornatus or clarotes laticeps a good call. Doesnt look like amphilius to me though, from width of mouth to head, size of eyes and the distinct scale of the pectoral lead