Synodontis ID for Cat-eLog...pretty cool

[Birger]

I know what I want to call them just not certain....opinions please...wild caught quite sure, came in with real Brachysynodontis batensoda.

[corybreed]

Looks like the wild eupterus I would see at the wholesaler.

Mark

[Birger]

The fish I am thinking of does have this shape to...eupterus, melanopterus, velifer, ansorgii all have the tall dorsal and deep body.

Birger

[Richard B]

If it is definately wild caught my first thought was ansorgii, then perhaps serratus.

While i'm at work i've not got access to reference materials

[Silurus]

My vote is for ansorgii, which is the closest among all the possibilities mentioned. Furthermore, the color pattern of the juveniles as described in Poll exactly describes this fish.

[Birger]

It is just like the ansorgii in Seegers book as well.

Birger

[Dave Rinaldo]

Trying to get him with dorsal up....11cm SL

[jippo]

Very nice looking species! I can't see a reason why it won't be ansorgii.

I have this very old (possibly from 80's) syno which I have been calling cf. ansorgii but maybe it could be melanopterus instead? It has short filaments on dorsal fin but most of the time my Hemichromis elongatus destroy all filaments. I will try to get better photos but this one is not the easiest one to take photo of.

[Synofan1222]

That's a cool syno! Neat how the tail filament extends out. Nice find!