L243, LDA086
June 16th, 2013 — 7:58pm
Known only from parts of the Río Orinoco drainage in Amazonas state, southern Venezuela.
Sometimes confused with Peckoltia lineola (Armbruster, 2008) alongside which it’s often exported for the aquarium trade.
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L147
June 16th, 2013 — 7:47pm
Known with certainty from tributaries of the middle Río Orinoco between the city of Puerto Ayacucho, Amazonas state, Venezuela and the lower Río Meta, Colombia.
It may have a wider distribution within the Meta system since some reports suggest it to occur around Villavicencia, Colombia, some 600 km upriver.
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Giant Bumblebee Catfish
June 15th, 2013 — 2:06pm
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April 5th, 2013 — 9:05am
This species is almost unheard of in the aquarium trade though may occasionally be exported among shipments of wild fishes from Sumatra.
It’s closely-related to K. bichirris but is told apart by presence (vs. absence) of a prominent, dark lateral stripe on each flank.
Kryptopterus species are found only in Southeast Asia and the genus has been consi…
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April 4th, 2013 — 4:10pm
Type locality is ‘Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia’, but this species is widely-distributed throughout much of Southeast Asia including major river systems in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Peninsular Malaysia plus the Greater Sunda Islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java.
It’s been extensively recorded from the Mekong, Cha…
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April 4th, 2013 — 1:30pm
This species is likely to be traded for aquaria but probably misidentified as the very similar-looking K. cyrptopterus with which wild populations were formerly considered conspecific.
These two are closely-related and can be distinguished from congeners by the dorsal profile lacking a nuchal concavity (vs. possessing a nuchal concavity) and possessing short maxillary barbels (extending to the pectoral-fin base vs. ext…
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April 4th, 2013 — 10:49am
Generally peaceful though it may predate on smaller fishes and is somewhat timid so does not compete well with much larger, robust or otherwise boisterous species.
Peaceful, comparably-sized cyprinids, loaches and other catfishes perhaps constitute the best options but be sure to research your choices thoroughly prior to purchase.
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March 2nd, 2013 — 9:26pm
This species is now considered endemic to Java but has been confused with the congeners H. gracilis (from eastern Peninsular Malaysia), H. velox (Sumatra) and H. bongan (Borneo) in the past, while the population formerly considered to inhabit northwestern Peninsular Malaysia has been described as H. divaricatus (Ng and Kottelat, 2013).
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March 2nd, 2013 — 8:12pm
This species cannot be considered a suitable home aquarium subject given its eventual size plus the fact it can live for several decades.
It can be told apart from most oth…
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Heros efasciatus (Severum)
Do you have any sources, Exodus1500?
19th Apr 2018
Corydoras robineae (Flagtail Cory)
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19th Apr 2018
Corydoras splendens – Emerald ‘Brochis’ (Brochis splendens, Brochis dipterus)
References 6: is incomplete and thus biased. Please amend the reference and include the full publishing details: The book Identifying 'Corydoradin...
12th Apr 2018
Heros efasciatus (Severum)
Artie is correct, but his information is outdated. There is only one mouth brooding Heros/Severum. It is Heros liberifer. The liberifer was for a...
4th Apr 2018
Species profile problems
Hi, The species in the genus Carnegiella do not appear with any of the search functions. I know they are there, I added C. myersi myself a couple ...
29th Mar 2018