sold as L136b, but i think L201?

[DutchFry]

hi there, i'm here again

saturday i bought a new pl*co, it was sold to me as L136b, but i had my doubts from the beginning. i could see it was a Hypancistrus species, very hairy too, but the exact species? i think it's L201, but another topic on this board got me confused. so is this one L201?

i know it's a male, and a nice one too, but the exact species?







thanks in advance!

PS: i'm trying to add this one to the my cats page, assuming it is L201, but i get this: "not a valid user" what's up with that

[racoll]

Hypancistrus contradens

if you ask me....

[MatsP]

Yes, I would go with

Hypancistrus contradens

.

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Mats

[DutchFry]

ok thanks a lot, that's what i was thinking too

and what about the bug in the my cats section? can you tell me something about that? or should i open a new topic in the bugs section?

[MatsP]

I'm not sure what would be wrong there, I'd suggest starting a different thread - if it turns out that it's "easy to solve", we can always close by moving it to "resolved".

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Mats

[DutchFry]

ok, i will start a new thread.

i just read this one: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... 17&t=22084

but in this case, i can view 'my cats' next to the forum postings, but i can't add the species from the cat-e-log page. so this is the opposite of the problem in the thread above.

[drpleco]

Is there a difference between L201's with gold spots vs. white spots? Or perhaps only regional variation?
I see this fish has gold spots but I have a group of 8 F1's with white spots.

[racoll]

Is there a difference between L201's with gold spots vs. white spots? Or perhaps only regional variation?
I see this fish has gold spots but I have a group of 8 F1's with white spots.

I have seen specimens of H. contradens with white and gold spots on the same fish, so I would doubt they are indicative of different sp.

Just chromatic variation....

[drpleco]

excellent, thank you!

So among hypans, the only bigg(er) spotted fish are the L201, L102, L136c, and "big white spot hypancistus (from http://www.exoticfinds.net)"

P.S. - anyone else think that the 136c in the catelog looks like a scobiancistrus (L368-ish)? Check it out:
L136c: http://planetcatfish.com/catelog/image. ... ge_id=6528
L368: http://planetcatfish.com/catelog/image. ... ge_id=2777

Sorry for the hijack of sorts

[racoll]

P.S. - anyone else think that the 136c in the catelog looks like a scobiancistrus (L368-ish)? Check it out:

Yes, i've always thought that, although I would say it looks closer to

Scobinancistrus cf_pariolispos

.

big white spot hypancistus (from http://www.exoticfinds.net)"

The identity of this fish is interesting, and i've been chatting to Larry (apistomaster) about it.

Is it just a nicely marked variety of H. contradens?, or as Larry (and exoticfinds) suspects, something new. It appears to be a fair bit bigger than the average H. contradens.

I suppose without knowing where it came from this is just speculation, although I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't even a Hypancistrus, and was something like a

Scobinancistrus sp(l368)

.

[DutchFry]

i have seen pictures of L201 with white spots, that's why i was confused.

Hypancistrus contradens it is! thanks again!

[Jon]

Oh, the fish is a hypancistrus alright, although it has a markedly different head shape and body structure from contradens. I recall hypancistrus "rio venturi" being thrown around as an ID last time this fish was brought up.

[Barbie]

I have one of these Hypancistrus "big spot" plecos that I received in a batch of L201 for the store. It's definitely Hypancistrus and not growing all that fast. I will try to get pictures of the one here. I wasn't positive it wasn't just an extremely nicely marked H. contradens, so it will be interesting to find out.

Barbie