Is this a Synodontis macrops?

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Is this a Synodontis macrops?

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This is the only photo I could find online:

http://www.ohiexchange.com/armke/fishpa ... crops.html
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Nope, looks more like Synodontis frontosus to me.
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Thanks; I got a so-called macrops last week. I think--although I have yet to find an authentic macrops photo--that the closest match is Synodontis robbianus.
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