I do not have any idea of what kind of catfish is this

Marco1980 · Post by **Marco1980** » 10 Apr 2018, 15:57

About this species, this species was being caught at the mouth of the Kwanza River, and unfortunately I couldn't take pictures of the whole fish, but I do not have any idea of what kind of catfish is this, I can't think of any of the catfish species identified in the consulted bibliography ...

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oS5aicEZTvA/ ... 114159.jpg

Who can give me a light on this?

Best regards

Post by **Silurus** » 10 Apr 2018, 16:19

It's some kind of Carlarius, possibly C. latiscutatus.

YouTube · Post by **bekateen** » 10 Apr 2018, 18:35

Silurus wrote: ↑10 Apr 2018, 16:19It's some kind of Carlarius, possibly C. latiscutatus.

Hi HH,

Are you referring to the fish listed in our Cat-eLog as ? Do you know if there's a reason why PlanetCatfish hasn't moved the entry over to Carlarius? If it's just that the issue hasn't gotten done, I can make that update.

I'm looking at the COF and I see three valid Carlarius species.

Carlarius heudelotii
Carlarius latiscutatus
Carlarius parkii

C. parkii has no current representation in the PlanetCatfish database. I will add it in also.

Cheers, Eric

EDIT: Hmmmm, I'm looking at the COF and at Fishbase - Oddly, COF lists Carlarius latiscutatus as valid and Arius latiscutatus as a synonym. But Fishbase lists them the other way around, with Arius being valid and Carlarius being the synonym. What to do with that?!?

racoll · Post by **racoll** » 10 Apr 2018, 19:25

I'm looking at the COF and at Fishbase - Oddly, COF lists Carlarius latiscutatus as valid and Arius latiscutatus as a synonym. But Fishbase lists them the other way around, with Arius being valid and Carlarius being the synonym. What to do with that?!?

Have a read of this: http://www.fishbase.org/Nomenclature/FBCofFNames.php

Basically, FishBase is a great resource for many things, but if you want an authoritative source on taxonomy and nomenclature, always go with CoF.

YouTube · Post by **bekateen** » 10 Apr 2018, 19:53

Ah, thanks Racoll!

Yes I do treat COF as more-likely-correct than FB. But that doesn't mean I take everything as printed. I've learned here that several authorities active here will consider valid names to be inaccurate, because for example, they might have personal knowledge regarding on-going research which (when eventually published) will reverse some taxonomic change listed on COF, and because of that the CLOG profiles here are left "as-is" and discrepant with current COF convention. So before I make changes to entries in the Cat-eLog here, I like to ask around before proceeding unilaterally.

Cheers, Eric

Marco1980 · Post by **Marco1980** » 10 Apr 2018, 23:05

Thanks all of you ;)

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