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Re: unsure about identity
Posted: 30 Jan 2010, 15:09
by MatsP
Fins certainly look like S. decora, and the pattern will vary with age (and individuals - I have one I call "stripey" because it's got a stripe down the side, rather than a spot).
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Mats
Re: unsure about identity
Posted: 30 Jan 2010, 18:26
by Richard B
seems genuine to me
Re: unsure about identity
Posted: 04 Feb 2010, 14:43
by Viktor Jarikov
Re: unsure about identity
Posted: 26 Feb 2010, 11:06
by The.Dark.One
jippo wrote:Viktor Jarikov wrote:
About euptera, I have seen genuine hormone bred specimens at Germany which look like yours. I don't think yours is a hybrid, just hormone bred euptera.
I agree. I wrote something on this some years ago after buying some very small hormone produced (not hybridised) euptera, where one turned out as what was described as galinae, and the others normal. Just a deformity of the head basically. My article (quoted on the Catalog of Fishes) was:
Grant, S. 2003
On the validity and identity of some species of Synodontis Cuvier, 1817 (Siluriformes: Mochokidae). Cat Chat, Journal of the catfish study group (UK) v. 4 (no. 2): 15-19
The images can be seen on my Mochokidae images on
http://www.scotcat.com/thedarkone/thedarkone.htm