Loricaria and Corydoras - Help me please

[Andrea Perotti]

Hello.

Can you help me?

What's the correct scientific name of this species?


num 1:





num 2:







...another question:

this is Noemacheilus barbatulus?





Thanks

[Bas Pels]

The fisrst looks more like a Sturiosoma to me

Can't tell you about the cory, but the loach is a Noemacheilus indeed. Perhaps you better inquire at www.loaches.com? There you find the specialists

[Silurus]

I think the Corydoras is

Corydoras paleatus

.
I think the loach is Lepidocephalichthys berdmorei.

[MatsP]

Tentatively, I'd call the first one

Sturisoma aureum

, but they are definitely hard to tell apart. S. arueum stays fairly small and is more slender most other Sturisoma species.

Having said that, Sturisoma as a group are quite hard to identify - there are many species that are only subtly different.

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Mats

[Andrea Perotti]

Ok.

Num 1 ==> Sturisoma aureum (?)




Num 2 ==> Corydoras paleatus


For the last I don't know...

[MatsP]

The last is not a catfish, but a Loach, hence the suggestion to go to www.loaches.com (or somewhere else where there is loach information). Although I expect Silurus to know Loaches fairly well too - after all, he's been collecting fish in areas that have plenty of loaches.

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Mats

[Andrea Perotti]

Ok, thanks a lot.

[Andrea Perotti]

The last is Lepidocephalus thermalis

Bye bye....