"Kuhli" Catfish - No Pic Yet - Description

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funcrew
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"Kuhli" Catfish - No Pic Yet - Description

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Hi, I just bought a gorgeous small juvenile catfish from the nicest (and priciest :shock: ) LFS in Las Vegas. Labelled as "Kuhli Catfish." They said they could not figure out what he was. He's too small for me to get a good picture. Anybody know what he might be?

General: He definitely looks like a catfish, and not a loach.
Color: olive green with small dark spots uniformily on back and sides; pale belly
Shape: VERY long and skinny (not sickly), at least 10X as long as wide. Smooth all over, not bumpy
Fins: smallish dorsal is unusually far aft: about 2/3 of the way toward the tail. Caudal small and square; no fork
Barbels: 2 sets downward, 1 set? upward, looks a lot like the planet catfish logo.
Eyes: bumps sticking up on top of a flat face, not flush with surface
Mouth: flat wide mouth just like a Southern US flathead or channel catfish
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Post by Silurus »

Trichomycterids have been sold as kuhli cats. Without a pic, I am guessing you have Eremophilus mutisii, or probably a Trichomycterus sp.
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Thanks! Eremophilus mutisii

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Silurus, my fish matches the pic for Eremophilus mutisii. Thanks for the info! :D
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