M. uranoscopus or L. dorsalis or what??

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M. uranoscopus or L. dorsalis or what??

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Thank you, HH. So, I assume you think uranoscopus because Megalodoras guayoensis likely does not enter the trade, right?

The body, head, and fin shape I thought too were of a M. uranoscopus. The coloration threw me off.

Does anyone else find this coloration markedly far from that of the irwinies we usually see in the trade?
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Surely the blue lighting does not help but looks like I am the only one. Good to know. Thanks.
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Coincidence that I just opened the new (may 2014) Journal of the Catfish Study Group and there is an article by Mark Sabaj Perez where he discusses a third Megalodoras yet undescribed which they believe
is from the Rio Xingu above Belo Monte
...it looks remarkably like the one in the pictures above.

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