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Hello Planet Catfish, I do volunteer work in the ichthyology department of ANSP. As some of you may know, ANSP houses a very large collection of catfish, as well as catfish type specimens. I was planning on doing a project of photographing a large number of the catfish that have not been photographed yet, would Planet Catfish be interested in using any of these photos if I posted them here (or I can send them another way too if that works better)?

Yes, I would certainly be interested in that. You could post them here, but emailing them to me (per species?) works too. It is especially the species where we have no photo that is of most value. Let's try a few for starters and see how we go?

Brilliant concept and thanks for thinking of us!

Cheers,

Jools

Sounds good, I will there tomorrow and will do a few. Most likely going to start out with some Loricariichthys

How did you get on?

Cheers,

Jools

Sadly did not have time on Friday to take any photos, had to help prepare a ~600 fish loan shipment and give a collections tour. I am back in tomorrow though and should be able to take some.
For the view on the photos, at least for the loricariids, I was planning to do a dorsal view, lateral view, ventral view, and ventral view closeup of the head. Is there any other view that you think would be important?

Finally have some photos ready to go, took a little longer than anticipated. For all these photos can you credit them to Peter Kuffler @Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Starting off with a male and female
Female ANSP 206701

Male ANSP 206701

ANSP 181013

ANSP 181123

Nice. What do you have in the way of Microglanis? Specifically, anything listed as iheringi, poecilus, secundus, or Microglanis sp. from Colombia, Peru, Brazil or the north coast nations?

Thanks. Cheers, Eric

Oooh, nice, I will add to the site soon. Can I ask, is there a list or searchable database of all specimens? If so, I could highlight those of interest?

Cheers,

Jools

bekateen wrote: 04 May 2025, 08:16 Nice. What do you have in the way of Microglanis? Specifically, anything listed as iheringi, poecilus, secundus, or Microglanis sp. from Colombia, Peru, Brazil or the north coast nations?

Thanks. Cheers, Eric

Yes there is a bunch of Microglanis, you can search for some of what the museum has here https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search? ... advanced=1 , I can also check what is in the collection on Wednesday as this list is not complete.

Jools wrote: 05 May 2025, 07:31 Oooh, nice, I will add to the site soon. Can I ask, is there a list or searchable database of all specimens? If so, I could highlight those of interest?

Cheers,

Jools

https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search? ... advanced=1 is what is listed as the database, although I cannot seem to find a few things I know are in the collection so i do not think it is entirely complete

Next set of fish I wanted to photograph had already been done, I got permission to post them here and for them to be used on the website. ANSP 68656 Holotype
Copyright Kyle Luckenbill @ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

ANSP 39932 Holotype
Copyright Kyle Luckenbill @ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

BMNH Lectotype 1st picture
IRSNB 546 Holotype 2nd picture
Copyright Mark Sabaj Pérez @ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

bekateen wrote: 04 May 2025, 08:16 Nice. What do you have in the way of Microglanis? Specifically, anything listed as iheringi, poecilus, secundus, or Microglanis sp. from Colombia, Peru, Brazil or the north coast nations?

Thanks. Cheers, Eric

I went and looked in the collection today and this is what we have for Microglanis, , , many , , , , , many , , , , as well as some unidentified microglanis from Minas Gerais, Brazil, and some unidentified ones from the rio Solimoes in Amazonas, Brazil.