Yes, by searching the Internet, I'm sure we can find all sorts of evidence for things that aren't true - whether that is that the moonlanding is a fake, or that my common bristlnoses are
rather than
- there are after all pictures on Wikipedia called A. dolichopterus that are clearly the common variety... I could also find that my common Ancistrus are
.
Unfortunately, if someone buys a fish called X and don't know any better, they will probably post photos of it as X. That doesn't actually make it that species.
The ACSI (All Catfish Species Inventory) supposedly has a picture of the holotype (the fish used for the original description) of O. arnoldi. Unfortunately, that site is not currently working.
I will see if I can get hold of the species pictures another way, and then put them up here on Planet Catfish.
When I did an image search, I found a lot of pictures supposedly showing O. arnoldi, but if as I suspect, the fish looks pretty much like O. flexilis, then all those images are indeed wrong. But then this is not Ancistrus dolichopterus, which is the second picture to come up when searching for that species in google image search
Photo copyright André Karwath.
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Mats
