What is the difference between these two?

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What is the difference between these two?

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and . In the pictures in the catelog.. they look very very similar. I assume size is the main difference visually?
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Re: What is the difference between these two?

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Hi!!

mainly body shape,
aulopygia being more elongated, less rays in the dorsal fin, and shape of the caudal fin

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Thanks for that! A LFS had some on their recent in lists, come to find out the sp1 was really intermedius ...
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It seems any interesting auchenipterid ends up being intermedius :(
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I know.. and its sad because a lot of places around here wont get them in because they don't sell.
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