Help identify these specias

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pez gato
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Help identify these specias

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Hi, just bought the two catfish species below.I believe they belong to the family doradidae, but which species? Thank you

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The fish swimming above looks like or a close relative, I don’t know what the bottom fish is though
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Looks like anduzadoras to me , or hassar cat group, possibly oxyrhynchus, but could be wrong.
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Bottom looks to be a Leptodoras. Maybe
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Yes, looking closer I would agree. The eye is too small for anduzadoras.
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Hi Everyone, thank you for your input.

The fish on top was sold by the shop as Opsodoras leporhinus from Peru.

The long catfish a the bottom was only called Leptodoras. it does not have the long dorsal fin ray so not L. juruensis but all the other species look very similar!

Thank you again!
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