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Not but very close in some ways. I am more brownish than blueish.

Jools

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Nope, still not brownish enough. I look a lot like L092 and I am higher than 300.

Jools

Very close, but set your sights lower.

Jools

DutchFry wrote:

Lasiancistrus cf_caucanus

That's it!



Jools

Jools wrote: I don't have a scientific name.

It does have a scientific genus name?

Edit: Apparently it does

- Again, I'm a pleco
- I live in Ecuador and Peru
- I have no L-number but I have a LDA-number!

- I recently was compared with another similar species in the Loricariid section.

No I'm afraid that's not the one.

apithanos is on the previous list if I remember correctly..

yes Marc that's the one!

thanks for playing

New fish

1) I have something to do with kings and queens
2) And with a former super model who also featured on a David Bowie album cover
3) those 2 combined + the description of what I am will give you my full common name

Royal Twig

L number Banana wrote:

Sturisoma panamense

Royal Twig catfish

Indeed!

Your turn.

New fish, another easy one (I think):

A German spice, the night sky and symmetrical velvet.

Both the genera and species are already listed on the fish list, but not the same way.

Okay, maybe it was easy because I already knew the answer...

A) A German spice, the night sky and symmetrical velvet. The are the first 3 words in my 'scientific name' line of the data sheet. but in the opposite order.

B) Both the genera and species are already listed on the fish list, but not the same way. One is as part of a genera.

C) I'm spotty brown with a wide flat head and slinky body, sized to fit into most of our tanks.

D) I have no keepers, one full body picture and one somewhat textural picture, possibly from an electron microscope.

(Pfeffer, 1889)?
"Stargazer Mountain Catfish"

torbanite wrote:

Amphilius uranoscopus (Pfeffer, 1889)

Yup!

a)

probably from the Greek amphi, meaning both sides and leios, meaning smooth

Urano- the planet, sort of.
and Pheffer - pepper in German.
b) Dolichamphilius brieni and Megalodoras uranoscopus already in fish list.
c) 6.3" SL
d) cool pic but not sure if it was electron mic or not - need to check with Silurus for that.

All yours, torbanite!

It took me a wee while to figure out that the spice might refer to the describer rather than the fish.
But, I got there in the end..

Previously Listed Catfish

Time for a picture round..



Who am I?

hey, good idea, we had one before from Jools but I had forgotten about it. I'm game.

Guess one: It's the tips of the 'chin' barbels of a synodontis species?

I'd rather think it's the bushynose of an Ancistrus species...

On a seasonal note.... is it the antlers of Rudolph, the red-nose reindeer?

On a seasonal note.... is it the antlers of Rudolph, the red-nose reindeer?

That would be Rangifer tarandus 'Rudolf', type locale North Pole, extensive range but only once per year.

L number Banana wrote:

On a seasonal note.... is it the antlers of Rudolph, the red-nose reindeer?

That would be Rangifer tarandus 'Rudolf', type locale North Pole, extensive range but only once per year.

Something tells me you aren't taking this seriously



He's obviously a Chameleon - he can move his eyes independently, change colour and likes the occasional insect (larva).

DutchFry wrote:I'd rather think it's the bushynose of an Ancistrus species...

Any particular species?

torbanite wrote:

Something tells me you aren't taking this seriously

If I could be a four year old for just a moment.....Richard Started It!

Okay back to the ancistrus...

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L number Banana wrote: If I could be a four year old for just a moment.....Richard Started It!

Ancistrus sp`rio_paraguay`

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No, nothing that exotic.
Strictly speaking, I don't think he has a (scientific) species name.. but he has to be called something for the purposes of the cat-e-log/trade.