Hypancistrus sp."Mimic"

[lukan, posts: 17]

"NOW" I know what you mean by keep them separate and they will grow up to one of the most beautiful Hypancistrus species you have had... in my eyes they are more beautiful than H. zebra and they will be really black and white as adults.

Hi Saul,

I guess I can hope that a possibility that some of my lower xingu hypans might turn out that good.

Cheers,
Marte

[Jools]

I've asked Janne for some pics for a new species entry.

Jools

[HaakonH, posts: 279]

Good move, Jools I think it's just right to give this form it's own profile. There's already (at least) a pic of it in the Cat-eLog that can be moved to it's profile; the main/1st pic of L345.

Haakon

[Jools]

the pic (L287) in catelog is also the mimic.

Are you REALLY sure? Because that is the original L287 pic. That would therefore mean the mimic = L287 and so I don't need the new species entry I just created...

Jools

[HaakonH, posts: 279]

The pic of L287 in the Cat-elog is not the mimic, the eyes are too big and the snout has the wrong shape. I'm sure Janne got things mixed up a bit when he wrote his answer

Jools, would you like some more species data to add to the profile?

Haakon

[Janne]

The pic of L287 in the Cat-elog is not the mimic, the eyes are too big and the snout has the wrong shape. I'm sure Janne got things mixed up a bit when he wrote his answer

I agree... was probably a little confused when I wrote that and I don't remember why I should have wrote it either.

Janne

[pleco22, posts: 125]

Hi,

sorry, I get a little bit confused about H. sp. "mimic". Could you please provide more info to separate them from L 174 or L 400. This picture
http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/image.php?species=hypancistrus_sp(2)&image_id=5877
was sorted as L 345 for years, why this fish should be H.Sp. mimic?

Cheers

[HaakonH, posts: 279]

Felix,

Compared to L174:
H.sp."Mimic" (or Hypancistrus sp(2) as it's listed here) grows bigger and has a longer, flatter body. It also tends to show more short lines and stripes in it's pattern than L174, which is mostly spotted.

Compared to L400:
H.sp."Mimic" has smaller eyes and a flatter, more pointy head. According to Janne, L400 occurs around Belo Monte, 30-40 km from the location of L174 and H.sp."Mimic". This pic of "L400" from l-welse.com actually shows H.sp."Mimic":

http://www.l-welse.com/reviewpost/showfull.php?product=415&bigimage=L-400-600Andre1.jpg

Compared to L345:
H.sp."Mimic" has smaller eyes and a flatter, more pointy head. This is based on the original pic of L345 presented in DATZ:

http://www.l-welse.com/reviewpost/showfull.php?product=360&bigimage=345bg.jpg

I don't believe the pics of L345 are similar enough to the original pic to be accepted as pics of L345, but I'll leave that up to Jools and Janne.

Haakon

[HaakonH, posts: 279]

I'm quite sure I found some more mimic-pics in the Cat-eLog. Look at the size and position of the eyes, and the headshape. I'd like some input from Janne on this before they are moved though.

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/im ... ge_id=7727

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/im ... ge_id=7726

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/im ... ge_id=7728

Haakon