Here they areDave Rinaldo wrote:Going to show us the Brachyrhamdia sp.mikek wrote:brachyrhamdia spc ? came in with the acuatus lookyliks


Here they areDave Rinaldo wrote:Going to show us the Brachyrhamdia sp.mikek wrote:brachyrhamdia spc ? came in with the acuatus lookyliks
I have my doubt about that (see link), but what a great species! Should be named B. arcuatus.mikek wrote:ian thought the brachys were
Any chance of a picture of those? Just to see if they are the real galaxias (which would be very nice).mikek wrote:i also had 4 tatia galaxias
Today I saw a tiny B. marthae between import of Otocinclus. That way I found and bought 3 of them already.apistomaster wrote:Very nice score. They do look like Corydoras arcuatus mimics.
I have never seen a Brachyrhamdia species for sale. Just haven't been lucky, I guess.
Haha, I was thinking about what the name should be too. I think B. pseudoarcuatus might be more appropriate, as in "false arcuatus". ;)Marc van Arc wrote:Should be named B. arcuatus.
I wonder. Wouldn't that name imply that the bowed pattern is false or fake - which it isn't afaics.Suckermouth wrote: I think B. pseudoarcuatus might be more appropriate, as in "false arcuatus"
In this case, "arcuatus" would refer to another species, not the pattern. This is the case with many "pseudo-" species.Marc van Arc wrote:I wonder. Wouldn't that name imply that the bowed pattern is false or fake - which it isn't afaics.Suckermouth wrote: I think B. pseudoarcuatus might be more appropriate, as in "false arcuatus"
But isn't the prefix "Pseudo" resticted to genera?Suckermouth wrote:In this case, "arcuatus" would refer to another species, not the pattern. This is the case with many "pseudo-" species.
That's true, but I don't think there's any hard and fast rule, although maybe Silurus would have other comments. In any case, the way one would know what the species name would refer to would be the Etymology from the paper. When names are given, authors will give what it means and why they gave the name.Marc van Arc wrote:But isn't the prefix "Pseudo" resticted to genera?
Besides, how is one to know that "pseudarcuatus" refers to a species from another family? I can see the logic in Mystus and Pseudomystus, but things will be much more complicated on species level.
A better(?) option would then be B. pseudocorydorasarcuatus (which is of course only nice for people who like word games with many vowels).
Btw: too bad someone decided to to name just one Brachyrhamdia species "imitator".
They all seem to mimic another (Corydoras) species and it would have been more appropriate if some reference of that feature could have been found in their species names.
Fair enough.Jools wrote:Guys,
Bit dangerous playing with names like this. I'd stop right now or well end up with a really unwanted nomen nudum and I would very much like that NOT to be attributed to this site as its source/cause.
Jools
mikek (Michael Kirkham) bought all 10 that came through the shop where Ian Fuller works.bronzefry wrote:Dave,
Beautiful fish. What kind of tank are they in, etc? The barbels are so stunning.![]()
Amanda
Who might they be?The.Dark.One wrote:I was advised in February 2009 by an ichthyologist that he and a colleague were already in the process of describing it.
Hi JoolsJools wrote:Yes, there also is another one pictured in the Burgess atlas.
Jools