PlanetCatfish.com

it says that the fish reaches 160mm SL.

Fishbase says 550 mm (55cm) TL.

That's a discrepancy of about 300%...

Does anyone know which one is right? Or is the tail that long?

[Is this best discussed here or in "bugs"?]

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Mats

No way a S. angelicus will obtain 55 cm. On the other hand, 16 cm is not enough for it. I've never seen one larger than about 25 cm, but I've seen loads of them being imported.

yup.

how big do you think that pair of Angelicus was, we saw in Germany a week ago?

about 20-22 cm or so?

the ones in the lowest tanks, opposite of the three Daltons

This was discussed here, check out posts by darkangel
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... =darkangel

Birger

I think the FB data stems from a typo in CLOFFA (from which the figure was obtained). All the sizes of Synodontis species in CLOFFA follow that of Poll (1971), which quotes 250 mm TL for S. angelicus.

I have a Angelicus that is just over 7" long and has grown very slightly since i got him. I have always been told the maximum size is 25cm...

Ben

So shouldn't the Cat-eLog be updated to reflect this?

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Mats

Hi,

there's another thing you could do, i.e. contacting Gert Boden at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren (Belgium). He works for FishBase and he's responsible for the input of information on African fishes (especially freshwater species). His e-mail address is: gert.boden@africamuseum.be.

David.

MatsP wrote:[Is this best discussed here or in "bugs"?]

Bugs, I nearly missed this one.

Jools

MatsP wrote:So shouldn't the Cat-eLog be updated to reflect this?

Yes, I will change this in the next upload. BTW, that size was typed in by me in 1996!

Jools