unidenitified catfish?/picture taken in Moscow

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unidenitified catfish?/picture taken in Moscow

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Hello all,
this is my first post here. I like to look but have never posted.... anyways

someone from Russia posted this picture on Livejournal looking for an id for this fish. I thought of this site as it looks like a catfish... it looks reminiscent of a cory

what is it
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Post by Silurus »

It looks like some kind of Corydoras-Brochis hybrid.
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Post by torfish »

Silurus wrote:It looks like some kind of Corydoras-Brochis hybrid.
the girl who posted the picture on Livejournal thinks it came from an Asian farm buy wasn't 100% on that.

thanks for the speedy reply :)
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Re: unidenitified catfish?/picture taken in Moscow

Post by joern »

Hello,

what size are these specimen ?

Juvenile Brochis loke somewhat different from the adults. Large dorsal fin and some "spotted pattern" seems to be typical. Compare the B.splendens at the catelog.

looking at the mouth, it's a "longe nose"....somewhat like B.multiraditus...any counts of the dorsal rays possible?
Dorsal fin is longer than that from B.splendens...
My guess: juvenile B.multiradiatus.

It's just a guess...haven't seem them up to now....an hope, mine will do it in this season....
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Post by chef »

as joern said they almost definatly look like juvenile brochis possibly multiradiatus or britskii and as far as i can tell the young off these two sp have'nt been seen before
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