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I bought a fish labelled L318 New Zebra. I seem to be unable to find any information about this fish, and wondered if it's correctly identified.

Pictures

What do you think?

It's not L318.

Which one do you think it is?

I think your species are L-316 Hypancistrus sp and a really beauty one, the pattern can different a lot in these species.

Janne

Hi Janne,

I was looking at L- 316, but the tail looks completely different. Can that be a matter of age? The one I have is 7 cm including the tail, but that in itself wouldn't be an indication of age, as it would depend on how large this specie can grow I suppose.

BTW, the color of the fish is not as black as the pictures might suggest, it's more a very dark grey.

Thanks for assisting me in finding the identity of this fish

7 cm TL...I still think these is L-316 and a very young one maybe 1 year old or so, you did'nt buy more of them?
I have a few of these and they show much different in the pattern and the black is more very dark grey so it fits your fish.

Janne

I can only agree with Janne. If you could get a hand on the aqualog extra "The latest L-Numbers" you could find on pp. 20-21 quite a lot of varieties of this species.

Erwin