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Otocinclus Mariae, wrong photo?
Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 7:00 am
by tsin21
I just noticed that the photo shown here for
Otocinclus mariae is exactly the same photo for otocinclus macrospilus in the seriouslyfish website. And both are credited to the same photo owner.
Planetcatfish:
https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/im ... ge_id=4758
Seriouslyfish:
http://www.seriouslyfish.com/species/ot ... crospilus/
Which species is it really, mariae or macrospilus?
Re: Otocinclus Mariae, wrong photo?
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 9:15 pm
by Karsten S.
Hi,
I share the doubts, IMHO the living ones are not P. mariae, the conserved ones look ok.
You can use this picture:
Caught in a tributary of Tapanahony, Suriname.
According to the official checklists etc. there is only this one
Otocinclus species in Suriname. However, I cannot tell if this is really the same as type locality (Rio Mamoré, Bolivia) is quite some distance away...
Cheers,
Re: Otocinclus Mariae, wrong photo?
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 5:10 pm
by Jools
Thanks, I've updated the site accordingly.
Cheers,
Jools
Re: Otocinclus Mariae, wrong photo?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 3:59 pm
by Karsten S.
Hi Jools,
I recommend to add the catching location for my picture as well, considering the huge distance to the type locality and Eschmeyer is listing only:
Distribution: Upper Madeira and lower Amazon River basins, Bolivia.
Tapanahony river is a tributary of Marowijne/Maroni river system and not the Amazone.
Cheers,
Re: Otocinclus Mariae, wrong photo?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 5:11 pm
by Jools
Ah, sorry, thought I did that.
Jools