C. Pestai cat-elog entry

[TP]

I was looking at Corydoras Pestai, a recent new species update, with a view to adding data to it and it doesn't exist on fishbase, only as a synonum of C. elegans. The Ferraris check list states the same so what is the procedure here?

[mummymonkey]

It was placed in synonymy with Corydoras elegans by Nijssen & Isbrücker (1980). Has there been a more recent paper?

[Carp37]

the previous pestai entry has been moved across to CW044 based on Ian Fuller's comments. I was going to suggest that this entry is perhaps not relevant- Ian Fuller mentioned that the original type material had been lost/destroyed, therefore it's going to be nigh on impossible to categorically identify something as pestai.

Edit: Ian's comments from this thread: http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... 13&t=27920

"I along with Erik Schiller, Carsten Goll, and Hans-Georg Evers discussed this fish at length while at a BSSW meeting in Hanover at the beginning of September.

I kept and bred this fish in the early 1980's and for a long time thought it to be C. pestai Holly, 1940, but because of the loss of Holly's original material it would be almost impossible to be certain it was one and the same species. After the discussion in Hanover it was decided that because of the uncertainty, this species would be better placed given the code number CW044"

[Jools]

Think I've got that all sorted now.

Jools