Hypoptopoma near Iquitos

Incorrect ID? New info to be added, taxonomic revisions and any kind of changes to the data we currently hold in here please!
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Hypoptopoma near Iquitos

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bekateen wrote: 12 Aug 2022, 17:52 Can I get a confirm on ID for this hypoptopomatine? I believe they are . We caught a lot of these along the Nanay. The color on the caudal peduncle and two tail lobes seem helpful. There's a very rudimentary adipose fin.

Thanks, Eric
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As a follow-up to my last Travellers note book post, shown above:

In September 2022, Jon Armbruster was in Iquitos and collected several Hypoptopoma (visible HERE, and photo is linked below), very close to where we caught the fish pictured above. This led to a conversation on Facebook about these fish, wherein @The.Dark.One suggested the proper ID was . This then led me to Aquino & Schaefer's 2010 paper (available HERE) on Hypoptopoma. Although the fish in my photo seem to have slightly more melanization of the caudal fin than you might expect based on the written description by Aquino & Schaefer, in general the pattern aligns with their Figure 23 of H. psilogaster (shown attached to this post). I agree with The.Dark.One that this is the correct ID.

This brings me back to our CLOG entry of . The CLOG page says they are occasionally exported out of Iquitos (which is the same location where H. psilogaster is found), and I see that the CLOG entry was created in 2011, only shortly after Aqunio & Schaefer's paper was published (and thus, was Aquino's paper taken into account when the H. cf_guianense CLOG entry was created?).

I'm now wondering if our H. cf_guianense CLOG entry should be incorporated into H. psilogaster. For those people familiar with those old imports of H. cf_guianense, is there any discriminating trait of those fish that proves they AREN'T H. psilogaster?

Cheers, Eric

Jon Armbruster's photo in his Facebook post (in case some readers here don't have access to FB):
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Aquino & Schaefer's 2010 image of H. psilogaster:
Fig. 23. Hypoptopoma psilogaster, ANSP 180654, 59.2 mm SL, female, in dorsal, lateral, and ventral views.
Fig. 23. Hypoptopoma psilogaster, ANSP 180654, 59.2 mm SL, female, in dorsal, lateral, and ventral views.
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I kept them separate at the time because of differing, IIRC, caudal and dorsal fin patterning given the same low body height. I didn't put them in H. guianense because of geography. Given the very sound reasoning/research posted, I think you could safely put the H. cf_guianense pictures into H. psilogaster.

However, what about the picture already in there (should it go into H. sp(2))? Also, a least H. sp(2) is from Iquitos (including some I collected there). The other H. sp(x) I do not have locality data for.

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Re: Hypoptopoma near Iquitos

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Jools wrote: 19 Sep 2022, 13:45I kept them separate at the time because of differing, IIRC, caudal and dorsal fin patterning given the same low body height. I didn't put them in H. guianense because of geography. Given the very sound reasoning/research posted, I think you could safely put the H. cf_guianense pictures into H. psilogaster.
Hi Jools. Okay, that's helpful. I've combined the photos, keepers, spotters, etc. of the former H. cf_guianense into H. psilogaster. I also stripped the remaining info out of the old H. cf_guianense CLOG page and renamed it (which will now require a CLOG page edit approval from you. I updated some of the info to overwrite the old CLOG data on that entry).
Jools wrote: 19 Sep 2022, 13:45However, what about the picture already in there (should it go into H. sp(2))? Also, a least H. sp(2) is from Iquitos (including some I collected there).
I think that's reasonable for one main goal. The singular photo we had before of H. psilogaster did not clearly show any good markings on the tail because the tail is compressed. It seems that the fish on don't have conspicuous melanization of the tail either, so that should be good. It could well be that the H. sp(2) is just an undercolored H. psilogaster, but keeping the pics separate until a broader understanding of variability of pigmentation is helpful.

Cheers,
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