Banjo catfish need ID.

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Banjo catfish need ID.

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Please help me ID these two banjo catfish.
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Bunocephalus colombianus IMO, going by the shape of the head
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The.Dark.One wrote:Bunocephalus colombianus IMO, going by the shape of the head
Thanks. Is that the main difference between it and B. coracoideus?
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One. The posterior processess of the coracoids are longer and more prominent in coracoideus (hence the name).

From memory I think the anal fin ray count is different too.
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That's good to know. I could easily have checked for that in the shop, too, because we had to search around for them in the substrate and were actually holding them for a moment out of the water.
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