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How about Blood in greek - aima
?

Right some clues to help you out:-

My species name used to contain part of my family name but no longer does.
My closest relative featured as catfish of the month in the month that hostage crisis of over 100 days at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in the country where the type specimen for it is from, ends after government commandos storm and capture the building, rescuing 71 hostages.
"It" being the closest relative.

It is now easy.

Right on
Care to explain how you got it Marc?

grokefish wrote:Right on
Care to explain how you got it Marc?

The hostage clue gave it away. Ended April 20th 1997; CotM then was A. pectinifrons; closest relative is A. albomaculatus.
Synonym: Doras (Doradidae).
And the fact that both you (atm) and the fish (normally) produce "much mucus"

Marc wrote:

And the fact that both you (atm) and the fish (normally) produce "much mucus"

Hope you're feeling better Grokefish - wouldn't have gotten that one in a million years.
Good one

New fish:

My common name is used for two different fishes from the same family.
You are looking for the one that doesn't have a common name in the land of its type locality.

might (also) fit

torbanite wrote:

Oxydoras kneri

might (also) fit

That's the one

Common Name(s) Armado (Argentina)
Type Locality Cuiabá, Brazil.

The other Armado is Pterodoras granulosus
Common Name(s) Armado (Argentina), Bacu (Brazil), Common Bacu

Dammit I flipped a coin on that one!

grokefish wrote:Dammit I flipped a coin on that one!

Following clues is better than flipping coins

Previously Listed Catfish

i) The culprit can be found in Venezuela?

ii) The culprit was described only quite recently.
iii) Where he was collected there is now a reservoir.

Oh.. & happy Christmas!

Marc van Arc wrote:

Pseudancistrus reus

Correct!

Good skills Marc! I have been baffled by this one! for some reason I was thinking it was a cory.......

New fish:

Sometimes people confuse me with a relative due to our patterns. But if you give me a good look, you'll see that I'm different. Bigger, broader, larger.

2) I'm an African species
3) I have a CotM

No-one? Everybody tired of guessing?

Or just too full of food to type. Is it ?

Jools

Thanks, but nope.
Different family (one with an ever increasing number of H-fishes.........)

?

Jools

grokefish wrote:

Synodontis contracta

Winner

The exact 3 words from Clue 1 can be found in the text that goes with this species under Identification.

Oh my, I got it again!
Right next:-

My first name is a combination of this place:-



and this:-



However the place has 2 possible answers, one which is correct for this species.

Another clue about the location pictured:-

You could possibly find 99.4% of my DNA in this location.

Not the place, but the act leads to a (non-cat-)fish, namely the paddlefish

I see where you going there Marc

It is a Catfish though, I got it by selecting the random species button and then searching for clues from there, so my clues may be a bit crap.

Want another?

Zaireichthys camerunensis

Absolutely amazing

Well done on that, how did you work it out Sherlock?