June 20th, 2013 — 9:13pm
Known only from a handful of localities within the Xi River (Xi Jiang) drainage in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China plus the Tuoniang river system in Funing County, southeastern Yunnan province.
Type locality is ‘West River, Longzhow Xian, Guangxi Province, China’.
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January 23rd, 2013 — 3:39pm
This fish remains in need of identification, and we’ve chosen to list unidentified members of the genus using an ‘ER’ numbering system in the absence of definitive information.
It’s quite easy to distinguish from congeners since it’s the only species known to possess a colour pattern comprising a dark base colour and series of thin, paler vertical bars on the body and similarly-coloured spots on the head.
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January 9th, 2013 — 1:05pm
This species is variable in terms of colour. Large adults may be bright green, orange or barred but are apparently capable of changing from barred to plain in just a few seconds.
These different forms have been recorded in the same natural habitats, and some individuals also possess prominent nuptial tubercules covering much of the body.
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May 17th, 2012 — 10:11pm
The type locality was a fast-flowing, shallow (50 – 80 cm deep) river between 5-10 metres in width with a substrate of gravel and large rocks. PH was measured at 7.7 and the habitat was unshaded with on…
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March 13th, 2012 — 1:26pm
This species appeared in the trade during 2010 and its identity has been confirmed to us by Thai exporter and aquarist Kamphol Udomritthiruj who collects it from the Se Kong system for the aquarium hobby. To date only subadult specimens have reached the western market.
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March 13th, 2012 — 1:26pm
This fish has thus far only been imported among shipments of S. sp. ‘SEW02’ and S. sp. ‘SEW03’. It doesn’t appear to correspond to any known member of the genus and may be undescribed.
Prior to the mid-1990s S. lineolata was the only species in the genus but an upturn in surveys of fresh water fauna in Vietnam and Laos has resulted in the discovery of various new taxa, several of which remain undescribed.
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March 13th, 2012 — 1:26pm
This fish first became available in early 2009 and was initially identified as S. breviventralis (Freyhof and Serov, 2000).
However it cannot be that species because there is no discernible gap between pelvic and anal fins, which also discounts the possibility of it being S. elongata (Roberts, 1998). It therefore remains unidentified and is often imported in mixed batches with S. sp. ‘SEW02’, which it also resembles closely.
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Spotted Butterfly Loach
March 13th, 2012 — 1:25pm
This is one of the more readily-available members of the genus and popularly referred to as S. sp. 'spotted' or S. sp. 'special'. It's superficially similar in appearance to S. albisuera but in that species body patterning consists of a network of irregular dark lines forming a complicated series of reticulations vs. many small, light spots on a dark background in S. sp. 'SEW01'.
It's been suggested that these two may represent the same species but this…
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March 13th, 2012 — 1:25pm
This species first became available in early 2009 and was initially identified as S. breviventralis (Freyhof and Serov, 2000) because there is a clear space between the pelvic and anal fins and body patterning is vaguely similar to that species, and also appears quite similar to S. elongata (Roberts, 1998) and S. sp. ‘SEW03’.
It does not fully match the original descriptions of either, however, and therefore remains in need of identification.
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March 13th, 2012 — 1:25pm
This species first became available in early 2010 and sometimes appears on trade lists under the vernacular names 'Laos sucker' or 'Laos Sakura sucker'.
It's distinguishable from other members of the genus by the following combination of characters: body spotted and without stripes; no concentric bands on paired fins; origin of pelvic-fin below origin of dorsal-fin; origin of pectoral-fin posterior to corner of mouth; pelvic fin reaching origin of anal fin; small elevated …
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Hyphessobrycon agulha
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Fixed!
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Synodontis angelicus – Polka Dot Synodontis (Synodontis angelica)
Fixed, thanks for the heads up!
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Synodontis decorus – Clown Synodontis (Synodontis vittatus, Synodontis decora)
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