Hello,

The name is used in apposition, so no need to change anything.

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No, it has been updated. Current status on the Catalog of Fishes is: Harttia fowleri (see the end of the previous copy-paste). For the taxonomy, the most reliable source remains the Catalog of Fishes...

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fowleri, Oxyloricaria Pellegrin [J.] 1908:126 [Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France v. 33; ref. 14331] Camopi River, French Guiana. Holotype (unique): MNHN 1901-0372. Type catalog: Bertin & Estève 1950:75 [ref. 19575], Ferraris 2007:233 [ref. 29155]. •Valid as Cteniloricaria fowleri (Pell...

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First you have to consider type specimens. Here is the holotype: http://acsi.acnatsci.org/base/getthumbn ... get=133570. As you can see, your specimen does not match at all (look at details in fins and snout margin...).

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Hi,

No, you will just need to fix the lectotype and paralectotypes from these syntypes . Then you can redescribe and fix type locality.

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If you have syntypes, then there is no holotype...

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Hi,

Hard to tell from these pictures. A ventral view would help. Looks like a Rineloricaria to me. Something close to R. morrowi. Any idea about the origin?

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Hi,

Indeed Sonia examined the species, but concluded it is neither A. cirrhosus nor a close relative. Racoll also demonstrated this from the maternal lineage, and no you do not need any male in a genetic sampling to demontrate introgressive hybridization.

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Oups sorry Mike of course!

Hi Mark, You are right, the only sequences of Ancistrus cirrhosus deposited in GenBank are mine, and they are not COI. The only public sequence is the one of A. brevipinnis (also present in the BOLD database as it should be the case for all other sequences). This is rather strange since it is explic...

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Pdf now available upon request. You can contact me at: raphael(dot)covain(at)ville-ge(dot)ch.

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Hi, What is writen above is not exactly correct. Fish-BOL is not sensu stricto a database, it is a barcoding project. Sequence in the BOLD database are also deposited in GenBank, since you have to submit them directly to the GenBank database (using Bankit for barecodes, see at NCBI). This is specifi...

Héhé! Who had doubts about this? The identity of the common Ancistrus as A. cf. cirrhosus is just another urban legend! But try to say the contrary, and nobody will trust you, even when you are one of the leading specialist of the group... or when you provide evidences as you just did it. Great idea...

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No, still no pdf available for the time being. We are waiting for them...

Hope they will be sent very soon...

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Hi,

Peckoltia sp. Athanase is now Peckoltia capitulata.

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Hi, Exact. Moreover, if you look at the tree we published with Monica and Hernan when we described Fonchiiloricaria nanodon in 2011, you can see that we labelled all species (only 3 for this publication, the topic was not Rineloricaria ) as Rineloricaria including R. lanceolata , R. platyura (both p...

Hi, No, Rineloricaria is not correct. No, Rineloricaria is valid. Moreover, I consider Hemiloricaria a junior synonym of Rineloricaria (and all other related genera Fonchiiichthys and Leliella ). I already wrote this in 2007. Rineloricaria is the correct name of the taxon. L10a is just a breeding fo...

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Rineloricaria lanceolata.

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Hi, This is a Pseudacanthicus from Corantijn River in Suriname collected during the 2010 CI RAP. We need to check more in depth for an ID. It could correspond to different species ( P. serratus , P. fordii ... or a new species). Unfortunately, Pseudacanthicus representatives are not so common in the...

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i just don't recall the name

This is not a Loricaria, it is Loricariichthys anus.

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Yes they are young Pseudoloricaria laeviuscula. The black blotch at base of the caudal fin is characteristic.

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Yes, that's a Spatuloricaria. It resembles the specimens exported from Colombia. Beautiful specimen.

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Hi Norman,

In Furcodontichthys, fringed barbels are gathered at the lips' corner, and in the original description, Lucia mentioned enlarged lips in breeding males as in Hemiodontichthys.

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Hi, This is normal. The first specimen on the catelog is a small one if one considers the size of the head. The second one taken by Tiago is a breeding male. Males develop enlarged lips (like in Hemiodontichthys, Loricariichthys, Pseudoloriaria, and Furcodontichthys )when brooding eggs. The third pi...

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Limatulichthys griseus , I should write L. punctatus to be consistent with myself .

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Hi Norman, My statement about R. parva is based on examination of type specimens from BMNH, and examination of freshly collected specimens from Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. If I'm correct some pictures of types are available on the ACSI database. Just look at the shape of the head ;-). I also s...

Hi, I agree with Norman, Fonchiiloricaria nanodon is definitely a distinct genus and species from Peru. It more or less reaches the size of a Spatuloricaria . What aquarists call Loricariinae sp.1 or LG6 (if the number is correct) just represents fanciful names for Rineloricaria parva (I already wro...

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Without more data concerning their origin in Colombia, A. macrophtalmus is clearly the best candidate.
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Hi,

If they really look like A. ranunculus and are from the Rio Orinoco, then A. macrophtalmus should match.

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Hi,

Aphanotorulus unicolor, Spatuloricaria sp. (maybe S. evansii), and Sturisoma robustum.

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