Cory I.D.

wng95 · Post by **wng95** » 31 Jan 2004, 20:09

Can anyone please help me to ID these 2 Corys. They were bought as a pair of C. Blochi, but as you can see they are 2 different fish.

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Post by **Coryman** » 31 Jan 2004, 20:21

Neither of your fish are C. blochi.

They are caught together and are close to C. leopardus, the one with the rounded dorsal blotch my very well be a C. leopardus colour morph, the other I don't know it may very well be a new species.

Ian

xsu-xsu · Post by **xsu-xsu** » 01 Feb 2004, 09:32

Couldn't one of them with a faded lateral line be a variation of c jullii or maybe trilineatus although the mazy markings are not pronounced enough for trilineatus I think?

Yann · Post by **Yann** » 01 Feb 2004, 09:40

xsu-xsu wrote:Couldn't one of them with a faded lateral line be a variation of c jullii?

Hi xsu-xsu!

Certainly not... way to different ot be or

Cheers
Yann

xsu-xsu · Post by **xsu-xsu** » 01 Feb 2004, 09:54

Couldn't one of them with a faded lateral line be a variation of c jullii?

ACE1 · Post by **ACE1** » 03 Feb 2004, 08:54

the one on the left in your pics is a cory reticulatus i was sold four of these as schwartzi but after searching on the web found them to be reticulatus

Post by **Coryman** » 03 Feb 2004, 13:00

xsu-xsu

Neither fish is C. julli. As I said in my first answer the fish with the rounded dorsal blotch is more than likely a colour variation of C. leopardus.

ACE1

Both of these fish are sharp snouted C. reticulatus are round snouted and the body pattern is different.

C. reticulatus

The species on the right closely related to C. leopardus but I believe it to be an new un-described species.

Ian

wng95 · Post by **wng95** » 03 Feb 2004, 20:44

Thanks for the thoughts guys. Whatever they are I think they are two cracking looking fish anyway. Pity about being two different species though because they are a pair. Oh well, that's the joys of trusting the weekend help at the fish shop and me just being excited at seeing two good sized, good looking Corys.
Again thanks for the thoughts....William...