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Could this fish be Phractocephalus hemioliopterus?

Posted: 20 May 2005, 10:53
by Jorge
Could this fish be Phractocephalus hemioliopterus? It is identified as it in the Monterrey aquarium... but to me it has a very light coloration... and old individual? another species?

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Posted: 20 May 2005, 13:18
by Shane
Yes, it is just a melanistic individual.
-Shane

Posted: 20 May 2005, 15:13
by coelacanth
Shane wrote:Yes, it is just a melanistic individual.
-Shane
I think you forgot the "a" in amelanistic.... :wink:

Posted: 20 May 2005, 17:01
by Shane
Thanks!
-Shane