Some woodcats

[The.Dark.One]

Hello All

Just thought I'd get your opinions on some of Roy and I's woodcats. We have two other species, which I havent photographed yet.

First two were (IRC) from Argentina or Southern Brazil. The first one looks a bit like T. lucenai, the second may be a female of the same species?




Next is a species that has a very flat head.



Next, a female T. fisheri?



Next, ?

[Marc van Arc]

Some nice specimens you've got there.
The third could be

Trachelyopterus sp(3)

The fourth is not a T. fisheri; I'd say it's T. galeatus
As I don't know T. lucenai, I take your word for it, but I doubt that the second picture shows the same species. Based on looks I'd rather combine picture 2 with picture 5. Could these specimens be T. albicrux or even T. insignis (based on the dark dorsal area)??
And to make things "worse" there are of course several still undescribed species....

[The.Dark.One]

Thanks.
Yes, I agree that the third one looks like T. sp. 3.
Picture 1 and 2 were exported together, but as albicrux is from Argentina too I suppose it could be. The first one seems to agree with the description of T. lucenai.

The 5th one, not sure.

[Martin S]

As mentioned, the colouring of the second fish is very similar to T.albicrux, I rememebred it from Dave Rinaldo's post when he lost his two beautiful fish. I hope he doesn't mind me reposting a link to his image below for comparison:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/down ... &mode=view
Martin

[The.Dark.One]

I can see similarities and they may be the same. The only thing I would say that is in life my specimen appears to have a darker base colour, and its anal fin has a dark trim to it. May well be that species though.

[The.Dark.One]

Three more.
First one probably the bog standard 'galeatus'. The second one has a different cranium shape and pattern (not visible on these photos), third, T. coriaceus?:

[Marc van Arc]

Third is indeed T. coriaceus (no adipose); the other two remind me more of picture 2 & 5 from the first batch than T. galeatus to be honest. However, as T. galeatus has a very variable pattern, it could well be that species.
Imo the above mentioned pattern issue makes ID-ing these types of Trachelyopterus spp. a difficult job.
Again, they are certainly nice and very well fed specimens. But wrt species names I can't help you any further.
Maybe someone else can come up with a suggestion? Dave?

[The.Dark.One]

The fish in pictures 4, 5, and 6, and 7 are for sale if anyone's interested? If, so drop me a pm.