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I'm currently working on a talk, and want spend a few frames stressing the importance identification and location separation. I'm hoping to find some side by side pics of mimics and regularly confused and preferably commonly available fish to use as examples. I will gladly give photo credit if used.

I'd like to stress I'm looking for commonly confused species side by side

Ian Fuller kind of invented this with his work on Corydoras rabauti and C. zygatus. I've gone through all of my images and I don't have any that are of two species in one shot.

Would two images you could use side by side work?

Are there examples of commonly confused species that you are thinking of?

Corydoras julii and C. trilineatus would be one but that's more misidentification than confusion.

Jools

You could do no better than use the examples from the Alexandrou et al. paper on in Nature:

http://corydorasworld.com/content/downl ... mimics.pdf

Do you want species that are confused but not mimics, or do you specifically want mimics? Because mimicry is a specific biological phenomenon, but there are tons of similar Ancistrus that aren't mimics of each other.

For example, your picture shows loricariids, but there isn't much literature on mimicry in loricariids.

Thinking more I think I'd like to stick with commonly misidentified fish. as mentioned mimicry is really a seperated discussion.