what am I?

[L number Banana]

List updated -whew, you guys were busy!
Previously Listed Catfish

Sidguppy:

the only German band that hits the speakers in here these days is RAMMSTEIN

Du hast good taste.

[Dave Rinaldo]

Previous clues..

Part of my Genus name is common with "Wels Catfish".

I share my species name with two other catfish.

....not African.

Clue: Some may think I'm a "sponger".

[L number Banana]

Can't make the last clue fit.

Cranoglanis multiradiatus

? Glanis + 2 other multiradiatus

[Dave Rinaldo]

Not yet!

There are more than two other multiradiatus

Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus
Brochis multiradiatus
Heptapterus multiradiatus
Mystus multiradiatus

[L number Banana]

There are more than two other multiradiatus

Didn't flip enough pages apparently...

Looked up the glanis parasite cats and could only find 1 matching species for each, maybe I need to flip more pages..

[Dave Rinaldo]

.....could only find 1 matching species for each, maybe I need to flip more pages..

You're there!

[L number Banana]

Oh you're so patient but this is just not happening! Can't find 2 matches for any of them.
Here's my list:
Ituglanis amazonicus also B. amazonicus
Ituglanis metae also cory metae

Stauroglanis gouldingi also Helogenes gouldingi
Sarcoglanis simplex also Tatia simplex

I flipped ALL the pages and still can't find a second species match.
Something is flying over my head - gimme another hint and I'll narrow it down or start again

[Dave Rinaldo]

One of them is correct!

You can search Fishbase using just the species name

Quick, I've got to get to work!

Edit...Just saw the second catfish with the same species name is not in the Cat-elog!

[L number Banana]

fishbase not working but pim metae

so

Ituglanis metae

?

[L number Banana]

Sarcoglanis simplex also Tatia simplex
also M.simplex a hoplo

Sarcoglanis simplex

edit - skip that one should have read the whole abstract.......

[Dave Rinaldo]

fishbase not working but pim metae

so

Ituglanis metae

?

That's the one!!

I have to get off to work. Later!

[L number Banana]

whew, enjoy work today!

[MatsP]

You can search Fishbase using just the species name

You can search the Cat-eLog for species name too - in the main Cat-eLog page, the third item on the right of the page is a "Genus/Species" search where you can choose "contains" with an empty genus, and it will give you a list of all the species matching the species name of any genus (and of course, all species in a genus, if you want to do it that way, along with various other things like you can in fishbase).

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Mats

[Dave Rinaldo]

in the main Cat-eLog page, the third item on the right of the page is a "Genus/Species"

I hadn't noticed that feature as I always use the drop down menu!

[L number Banana]

I hadn't noticed that feature as I always use the drop down menu!

Same here, what a time saver!

Previously Listed Catfish

New fish before I run out the door to work:

1) I am very small
2) I have a common name that can be both soft and painful.
3) I am a colourful catfish
4) I have many, many keepers

Should be guessed correctly when I get home, eh?

[L number Banana]

Hmm, my 'easy' ones get nowhere and my 'Hard" ones are guessed by you guys before I finish typing I sometimes suck at this

1) I am very small
2) I have a common name that can be both soft and painful.
3) I am a colourful catfish
4) I have many, many keepers

New clues:
5) I'm a very popular catfish for beginners and experts alike.
6) My colouring is responsible for my common name....
7) I'm the more readily available of the two...

[Marc van Arc]

Corydoras panda

[Jools]

Microglanis iheringi

?

Jools

[L number Banana]

Marc:

Corydoras panda

Nope but it would fit, too.

Jools:

Microglanis iheringi?

That's it!

Your turn!

[Jools]

List of previous species

New species: I like a higher pH than 8 and I look a bit like what some east Londoners might consider a fishy delicacy.

Jools

[Richard B]

Dinotopterus cunningtoni

?

[Jools]

Not correct I am afraid, I could have thought of a much better clue for that species!

Jools

[sidguppy]

hehe
the infamous British kitchen and their amazing collection of gross inedible foul tasting yucky stuff

this one looks like one of those fatty sausages.....

Tanganikallabes mortiauxi

at 1 time I ordered a "British breakfast" when I was in Thailand 2 years ago

that was the only time when I didn't finish my meal, cause they did a really good job of it

amazing, since their local food was good enough to miss cutlery afterwards; just ate it

gaaaaa

no wonder most British folk look so decidedly unhealthy with skin pallor as if they crawled out under a rock the day before yesterday
when in the UK I'll bring my own food

[Marc van Arc]

New species: I like a higher pH than 8 and I look a bit like what some east Londoners might consider a fishy delicacy.

There are just 5 species in the clog wrt that pH level and none of those look like porpoise, dolphin or seal (quote: And, on ‘Fish Days’ in the 16th century, East Enders would feast on porpoise, dolphin and seal).

[MatsP]

I think it is a fairly later delicacy of East end in London:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vargapeter/266351075/

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Mats

[sidguppy]

maybe the jelly is a clue...

if it is, then it's probably a Lophiobagrus species, because these can secrete a LOT of jelly-like slime when stressed or caught in a net

a single Lophiobagrus in a small jar can turn the water into jelly; the end result is a jar full of jelly and 1 dead fish.

since Lophiobagrus cyclurus is by far the better known species my gamble is on that 1:
here goes:

Lophiobagrus cyclurus

jelly fish!


about catelog data:
strange btw that the pH for cyclurus is different from brevispinis, but both species are from the same habitat....

also the breeding data for cyclurus don't match; it is NOT a mouthbrooder and it shows the same bi-parental breeding care that brevispinis does

I've bred both species and the way of spawning them is exactly the same.

the one exception is that it's much harder to get a matching pair of the cyclurus, due to their strong intraspecific agression


in brevispinis a male anmd a female are a pair.
in cyclurus a male and a female are most likely 1 fish harassing or killing the other, regardless of tanksize, unless with sheer luck, they match and pair off.

my own experience was that only the fourth attempt resulted in a matching pair and those were F1 fishes
I never got a matching pair from wildcaught cyclurus.

[L number Banana]

Sidguppy's gotta be right with the Jellied Fish but I like this one just because of it's description.

Lophiobagrus brevispinis

"Lophiobagrus: The name comes from the broad, depressed anterior region of the fish, which reminded Poll of the angler fish (Lophius piscatorius). "
Saggy-bummed Anglo fish. Saggy-faced Anglo fish? Either way it describes my English relatives...Saggy, flatish jowls? I just can't see it on the fish with my inexperienced eyeballs... Cute fish though.

[Richard B]

I thought the foodstuff reference was to "jellied eels", so was looking for a thin eel-like fish whose pH range exceeded 8...therefore a clariid from tanganyika......?

[Jools]

Hehehe, I knew those clues would throw you off. The delicacy of London is fishy not mammalian - if people in here started eating dolphins there would be anarchy in the UK! Lake Tanganyika is not the only body of water with a higher pH and eel like fishes, there are many more fishes in the sea.

This is not a pretty fish.

Jools

[Richard B]

Cnidoglanis macrocephalus

?