Catfishes from Peru

[Erlend D Bertelsen, posts: 145]

I was sitting and watching some old pictures, and was thinking that some of these pictures should bee sheared with you. I do have some pictures of some nice looking and very interesting catfishes. Some of the pictures may some of you already seen, sorry for that. I am not 100% sure about all IDs. All fishes were collected in Peru 2008.

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[Erlend D Bertelsen, posts: 145]

More pictures

[Erlend D Bertelsen, posts: 145]

Even more pictures

[kim m, posts: 598]

Brings back memories ...I recognise some of them from the trip we did up the Rio Itaya.

[Erlend D Bertelsen, posts: 145]

More pics

[Erlend D Bertelsen, posts: 145]

Yeas indeed Kim. Good memories, and many of them are from the Rio Itaya trip together with you. A very nice trip.

[MIKESHELEF, posts: 46]

Wow! Beautiful pictures. Gorgeous fish.
Thanx for sharing.

Mike

[Silurus]

The first fish is not Pimelodus blochii but Pimelodella sp(3).

[Industrial, posts: 108]

Wow, that Ageneiosus catfish is tiny!

Beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing!

[Stackdeck, posts: 145]

Nice pictures , that Amaralia looks pretty large. The last picture is a Pseudopimelodid? Perhaps Pseudopimelodus or Batrachoglanis.

[Viktor Jarikov, posts: 2279]

Good idea and photography, indeed. The memories and the underlying enthusiasm come through as almost tangible...

The last picture is a Pseudopimelodid? Perhaps Pseudopimelodus or Batrachoglanis.

My thought too.

It appears far from easy to tell Soruim lima from elongatus and Co.

[Erlend D Bertelsen, posts: 145]

Thanks for the input.

The Pseudopimelodid catfish, have been discussed before. I think we concluded with a Batrachoglanis.

E

[natalie26, posts: 4]

wow, thank you for sharing that pics...reminds me of my favorite catfish that i caught some where in Europe.

[Jools]

Hi Erlend,

Can you tell us more about the collection locality of the "Ageneiosus ucayalensis"?

Cheers,

Jools

[Erlend D Bertelsen, posts: 145]

Hi Jools.

If I remember right (and I think I do), we collected this fish in Rio Itaya by night-time, with a big net over a sand bank. I would guess around half an day upstream from Iquitos. ( I know that don't tell you exactly where it is collected, but I don't have and GPS info from the collecting spot)

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[Norman, posts: 195]

Hi Jools,

We caught A. ucayalensis in Rio Itaya around 1/2 day upstream from Carretera Iquitos-Nauta.

so long
Norman

[kamas88, posts: 191]

Hi,

we slept here: -4°16'34", -73°35'60"
We (Norman, me and two more German guys) caught them also during the night in rather big quantities with a dragnet not too far from above location.

Cheers,

[Phyllonemus, posts: 281]

To me tha A. hancocki is a Amblydoras nauticus.