Catfishes from Peru

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Catfishes from Peru

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I was sitting and watching some old pictures, and was thinking that some of these pictures should bee sheared with you. I do have some pictures of some nice looking and very interesting catfishes. Some of the pictures may some of you already seen, sorry for that. I am not 100% sure about all IDs. All fishes were collected in Peru 2008.

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Pimelodus blochii?
Pimelodus blochii?
Dianema longibarbis
Dianema longibarbis
Auchenipterichthys coracoideus
Auchenipterichthys coracoideus
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Amaralia hypsiura
Amaralia hypsiura
Ageneiosus ucayalensis
Ageneiosus ucayalensis
Trachycorystes trachycorystes
Trachycorystes trachycorystes
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Even more pictures
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Rhamdia quelen?
Rhamdia quelen?
Monster Ancistrus sp.
Monster Ancistrus sp.
Amblydoras hancockii
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Brings back memories :) ...I recognise some of them from the trip we did up the Rio Itaya.
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Not sure?
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Sorubim lima
Sorubim lima
Trachelyopterus galeatus
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Yeas indeed Kim. Good memories, and many of them are from the Rio Itaya trip together with you. A very nice trip.
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Wow! Beautiful pictures. :romance-hearteyes: Gorgeous fish.
Thanx for sharing.

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The first fish is not Pimelodus blochii but .
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Wow, that Ageneiosus catfish is tiny!

Beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing!
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Nice pictures , that Amaralia looks pretty large. The last picture is a Pseudopimelodid? Perhaps Pseudopimelodus or Batrachoglanis.
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Post by Viktor Jarikov »

Good idea and photography, indeed. The memories and the underlying enthusiasm come through as almost tangible... :)
Stackdeck wrote:The last picture is a Pseudopimelodid? Perhaps Pseudopimelodus or Batrachoglanis.
My thought too.

It appears far from easy to tell Soruim lima from elongatus and Co.
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Thanks for the input.

The Pseudopimelodid catfish, have been discussed before. I think we concluded with a Batrachoglanis.

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wow, thank you for sharing that pics...reminds me of my favorite catfish that i caught some where in Europe.
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Hi Erlend,

Can you tell us more about the collection locality of the ""?

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Hi Jools.

If I remember right (and I think I do), we collected this fish in Rio Itaya by night-time, with a big net over a sand bank. I would guess around half an day upstream from Iquitos. ( I know that don't tell you exactly where it is collected, but I don't have and GPS info from the collecting spot)

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Post by Norman »

Hi Jools,

We caught A. ucayalensis in Rio Itaya around 1/2 day upstream from Carretera Iquitos-Nauta.

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Hi,

we slept here: -4°16'34", -73°35'60"
We (Norman, me and two more German guys) caught them also during the night in rather big quantities with a dragnet not too far from above location.

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To me tha A. hancocki is a Amblydoras nauticus.
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