That would be nice, Jools. Originally the video sequence was available from: http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... _synos.htm

Back in 2003 Jerry Miranda uploaded a video sequence, where one can see a Synodontis, that he called S. multipunctatus, which was spawning without any mouthbrooding cichlid. Is this video still available somewhere?

Why do you think S.frontosus looks most similar, because besides the drawing from Boulenger there is to my knowledge no other figure available. I don't think that the ones in the cat-eLog are S.frontosus. Where should the picture been made if this species was never imported?

He guys, S. frontosus is a valid species, but your fish isn't S. frontosus . Have you seen what's the distribution area of S. frontosus ? The upper Nil, Lakes Albert, Rudolf, Edward, Kyoga, the Chad bassin and Uebi Shebeli. Do we get fish form there? No, we don't! So forget about that.

Your ...

I have seen several Synodontis species already going between the spawning of mouthbreeders. All of them were just behind the eggs of the c ichlids, but this might have been once the origin of cuckoo behaviour in S. multipunctatus/grandiops.

Hi Dave, I've also started a round mail already. So far nobody knew exactly what happened, it was more or less just guessing that the owner of the side probably forgot to renew his contract with the provider.

All right, this is a good argument. Most (but not all) big growing Synodontis do grow continuously and especially the first year(s). Also the big eyes of your specimen don't match to good. But if you look at the only photograph in the link to the cat-eLog, you might notice, that the specimen there ...

Thanks for the PM Dave! I haven't seen such a species alive before, and acc. to Poll, none of the fish of which a drawing is in that book fits perfectly. From its general appearance I would say its surely a West African species. Only S. budgetti has some similarities. I know, this species has an ...

O. batmani was in the hobby already in 2001, acc. to the pictures I took that time. Maybe it was sold under a different name?

Slowly I read me through some articles of that issue of Neotr. Ichthyol. Concerning Hemiancistrus guahiborum I had to see that the authors lumped L106 and L122 together. The type from Rio Ventuari is L106, but the color photograph of a non-type shows a L122. Also L122 occurs more downstream in the ...

There is one more thing to think about, especially the specimen in the displayed pictures look very much alike Synodontis velifer . It is assumed that this species is one of the parts used for the hybrids, but what if they are not hybrids and true S. velifer this time. As much as I know was the real ...

The problem would be to ship these fishes to your place. If you could visit Germany it wouldn't be a problem to get your hands on these species.

I think there is legitimate doubt, whether the species Hemiancistrus arenarius, Chaetostomus bachi, Peckoltichthys filicaudatus and Hemiancistrus ucayalensis , here in the combinations, as they have been described originally, later correctly were re-identified. While only H. arenarius and H ...

I didn't know that one need to be registered to view the attachments, sorry. So please find attached some pictures of this species. As you will see, they are pretty variable.

http://home.arcor.de/schraml.e/Microsynodontis-sp-ZaireLong-W-ZA-41-223.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/schraml.e ...

Thanks to Heok Hee Ng could a recent import at Aquarium Glaser be identified. These small mochokid catfish is now available. For further informations see:

http://www.petfrd.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17943

Erwin

To my knowledge was Peckoltichthys established by Miranda Ribeiro in 1917 with Peckoltichthys filicaudatus as a replacement name for Peckoltia , which the same author established in 1912 for Chaetostoma vittatus . The reason for this was, that he found out that Peckoltia was in use before already ...

Just checked it, it on stock:

http://www.animalbook.de/shop/product_i ... -ingo.html

You can try this book-order address:

http://www.animalbook.de/

they have an English section. If they don't have the book already in stock, just send them an email, they are not a big company and can order it for you individually!

There are several differences. Because of my possiblities to take every few weeks pictures at one of the largest wholesalers in Europe, the all-L-number book can show a huge variety of phenotypes of many species. For some species we could therefore spend several pages to show this variety. At least ...

Hi Jools, Walter,

the reason why it follows in taxonomy Isbrücker et al. and not Armbruster has nothing to do with the fact that it is a German book. The fact is that Isbrücker et al. gave reasons based on characters for their taxonomical splitting while Armbruster so far missed it to do the same ...

Today I received a copy of Vol. 2 of the Mergus Catfish Atlas. It has 1.359 pages and covers only Loricariidae catfish of the subfamilies Ancistrinae, Hypostominae, Lithogeneinae and Neoplecostominae. L-Numbers are covered up to L387 and LDA86. Many L-Numbers are there with their scientific name, if ...

Unfortunately I can't say what your fish is, but I can say its not S. dorsomaculatus , because first place, from the area where they live no fish exports are comming so it would be more than a surprise if they would show up, and second, there are quite some differences in pattern and morphology. The ...

Servus Oliver,

a little bit a late replay, but still I hope it helps. I think your fish are S. robbianus . The small membrane at the barbels of the upper lip (maxillary barbels), the dots on the body which are not closely set, and the form of the shoulder appendix (humeral process) is very much ...

Marcucci, Karen M. I.; Orsi, Mário L.; Shibatta, Oscar A. (2005): Abundance and reproductive aspects of Loricariichthys platymetopon (Siluriformes, Loricariidae) in four sections of the Capivara reservoir, river Paranapanema. Iheringia, Sér. Zool. vol.95 no.2

abstract: http://www.scielo.br/scielo ...

Hi Jools,

that's why I wrote "pdf should be available soon". I guess it is not linked at the moment, it was put online today, maybe tomorrow..?

Erwin

Try: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/taxa/Pisces.html

Wosiacki, W.B. (2005): A new species of Trichomycterus (Siluriformes: Trichomycteridae) from south Brazil and redescription of T. iheringi (Eigenmann).

pdf should be available soon: Zootaxa, 1040: 49-64.

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2005f/zt01040p064.pdf

Vishwanath, W. & Darshan, A. (2005): A new catfish species of the genus Sisor Hamilton (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Manipur, India.
Sisor barakensis Vishwanath & Darshan, 2005
Zoos' Print J. v. 20 (no.8): 1952-1954.

Isn't it interesting, that everybody(?) uses CLOFFSCA as a revisionary paper, even it only lists names. There is to my knowledge not yet a paper published, which explains, why the differences in the two genera are now not big enough any more, as they used to be when both were established.
Anyhow is ...

Okey, at the moment I keep this fish from Zambia:

http://home.arcor.de/schraml.e/S-petricola-Sambia1.jpg

I would say they are close to real S. petricola . But I also keep this one from Zambia too:

http://home.arcor.de/schraml.e/S-petricola-Sambia2.jpg

After I have them now for a while, I ...

To me it looks like a female of an Ancistrus.

Erwin