Some synos to identify

[jippo]

I have two of these, not sure but I think they are

Synodontis obesus

. Other one is very old, maybe from 80's, other one is few years old. Sorry about bad photos with old one, I hardly ever see it and it is very hard to photo.












This came as "Synodontis mix" from Africa. I thought first it's

Synodontis schall

but not so sure anymore. Maybe

Synodontis punctifer

?








This came at same shipment as earlier species, hasn't been growing much and is still less than 15cm(TL). Thought this could be

Synodontis ouemeensis

.








Could this be

Synodontis schall

at all? Humerall process doesn't seem to fit when I compare it to Poll's revision. I have always thinked this one is schall.






This one I got with group of soloni, it always looked different and I think it could be

Synodontis smiti

.

[Silurus]

The last one IS S. smiti.

[Birger]

Brown spotted obesus/rebeli group...really hoping some literature comes out on these soon or one of us is going to have to really figure them out.

Mature

Synodontis punctifer

could very well be correct.

I am with you on

Synodontis ouemeensis

Maybe

Synodontis arnoulti

or another schall lookalike

And for sure

Synodontis smiti

as HH has already mentioned.

Could use some of these pics in the Cat-eLog...also would not mind adding to the undescribed one(yellow syno that is not yellow anymore...those are good pics)

Birger

[jippo]

Thanks HH and Birger.

Brown spotted obesus/rebeli group...really hoping some literature comes out on these soon or one of us is going to have to really figure them out.

These are very hard to identify, most of these brown synos I don't even try but both of these two I think are same species. Hope we get some new scientific material about obesus/rebeli complex.

Maybe

Synodontis arnoulti

or another schall lookalike

IMO arnoulti should have longer maxillary barbels so I think it's something else. Closest I can get is

Synodontis cuangoana

.

Could use some of these pics in the Cat-eLog...also would not mind adding to the undescribed one(yellow syno that is not yellow anymore...those are good pics)

Feel free to use them, PM me if you need original ones.