is this L137, it has blue eyes.....

ubgone · Post by **ubgone** » 30 Jun 2006, 13:10

this fish isnt mine, it belongs to this guy in israel, he is a real pleco guy and knows alot about them, he had this fish and he sold him.
a couple of weeks ago a pleco shipment arrived to israel with L137 on them, so I went to pick up some but they didnt have blue eyes and they didnt look like this one at all.

so anyone knows what is this amazing fish?

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 30 Jun 2006, 13:32

This fish is L137.

The others you picked up were likely Hypostomus (cf.) cochliodon from the Parana drainage. This blue eyed fish comes from Tapajos.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 30 Jun 2006, 13:45

The species is in the Cat-eLog here, but I don't think it's not got much info, or even an L-number.

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Mats

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 30 Jun 2006, 15:16

I was referring to the Welsatlas 2 in which this blue eyed fish is identified as L137 Cochliodon sp.
Compared to the WA2 the PCF Cochliodon/Hypostomus IDs are a bit misleading

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 30 Jun 2006, 15:38

Christian,

I agree that the Cat-eLog for L137 may be incorrect. If we look at http://www.transfish.de/LCode/L137.jpg, it also shows a blue-eyed species. Since Transfish is one of the companies that are often supplying pictures for DATZ to form the L-numbers in the first place. so the Cat-eLog is wrong, in this case...

From transfish's website, it does look like L77 and L137 aren't the same fish, but the Cat-eLog is listing them AS THE SAME... Maybe they should be split...

I'm going to post in the Cat-eLog section to see if anyone else has any thoughts on it.

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Mats

ubgone · Post by **ubgone** » 30 Jun 2006, 19:06

so whats the verdict?

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 30 Jun 2006, 19:27

Caol_ila wrote:This fish is L137.

MatsP · Post by **MatsP** » 03 Jul 2006, 10:08

I certainly agree with that.

That Cat-eLog on this site is somewhat mixing the two identies of the Tapajos and Parana, which have different eye-colour. Whether that's sufficient to make them different species or just different locale-dependant variants is a different story.

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Mats