Also, picked up 2 cories named: San Juan cories?

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Also, picked up 2 cories named: San Juan cories?

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There was no other info on the bag of 5 of them. Anyone know what they are under?
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San Juan is just the name of the area that they are caught from, usually C. Elegans or C. Napoensis.
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San Juan cory is the common name given to <i>C. bilineatus</i>. It's in the Cat-eLog.
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I have to disagree HH.
Last year I purchased 12 Corys that came in as San Juan and they were Elegans and Napoensis, yet again the exporter using a made up name that causes confusion.
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Well, I bought fish labelled as San Juan cories before and they were definitely <i>C. bilineatus</i>.
Blast these common names.
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Common names are a pain in the A** The whole elegans group are a mess ane really need sorting, there are new versions cropping up all the time.
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http://www.corydoras.pwp.blueyonder.co. ... _group.htm

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They look just like c. bilineatus.
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