Pyrrhulina Id
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April 11, 2012 at 6:12 pm #302164
kim mParticipantI bought 2 pairs of these 6 cm.+ Pyrrhulinas recently but I’m struggeling a bit to identify it. The shopkeeper couldn’t remember where they were imported from.
I have an eye at P. filamentosus, but not shure at all…
April 11, 2012 at 6:17 pm #347801
andy rushworthParticipantWow Kim ,thats a nice fish ! though I won’t pretend I know what it is ?
April 11, 2012 at 6:33 pm #347804
kim mParticipantQUOTE (andy rushworth @ Apr 11 2012, 07:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Wow Kim ,thats a nice fish ! though I won’t pretend I know what it is ?Yes I feel for them right away!
I’ve had a suggestion for Pyrrhulina laeta “Rio Magdalena” at another forum…not many pics on Google though.
April 11, 2012 at 6:42 pm #347806
plesnerParticipantQUOTE (kim m @ Apr 11 2012, 08:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Yes I feel for them right away!I’ve had a suggestion for Pyrrhulina laeta “Rio Magdalena” at another forum…not many pics on Google though.
Oh, but there are a couple at http://www.akvarieviden.dk:
April 11, 2012 at 7:31 pm #347812
MattKeymasterNo idea either, but it’s really beautiful.
April 11, 2012 at 7:41 pm #347813
plesnerParticipantQUOTE (Matt @ Apr 11 2012, 09:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>P. lugubris is the only species in the genus described from Colombia and the types are from Barrigón, Colombia, not too far from the Río Magdalena mainstream. Anyone know what that one looks like?There are a couple of pictures on p. 23 (11th page of the paper) of P. lugubris in this:
http://www.vertebrate-zoology.de/vz61-1/02…61-1_Zarske.pdf
And there are certain similarities there too.
April 11, 2012 at 7:56 pm #347815
kim mParticipantQUOTE (plesner @ Apr 11 2012, 07:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>There are a couple of pictures on p. 23 (11th page of the paper) of P. lugubris in this:http://www.vertebrate-zoology.de/vz61-1/02…61-1_Zarske.pdf
And there are certain similarities there too.
Given the geography (if we can trust the Rio Magdalena-detail) and the pic of P. lugubris in Plesners link I think it’s a very possible ID.
April 11, 2012 at 8:04 pm #347816
MattKeymasterGreat link.
April 12, 2012 at 7:36 am #347820
MattKeymasterTaphorn (1992) states that P. lugubris occurs in the Orinoco basin and describes its live colouration thus:
The body is purple in life. A narrow black stripe extends from the snout, passes back through the eye, and continues a few scales behind opercle. The sides are marked with several rows of red or orange spots. The dorsal fin has a dark black blotch and is edged anteriorly in white. The margins of the anal, pectoral and pelvic fins are black in males.
April 12, 2012 at 9:16 am #347821
kim mParticipantHmm…mine has some red/orange in the dorsal and blue in tha caudal instead of black…
But in the link Plesner provided above it says:
Der schwarze Fleck in der Dorsale ist bei P. lugubris
in der Regel größer und distal spitz zulaufend. Allerdings
kann in manchen Populationen bei lebenden
Tieren dem schwarzen Fleck ein roter Streifen vorgelagert
sein, so dass der schwarze Fleck sehr schmal erscheint
(Abb. 10 bis 11).…so they CAN show red colours in the dorsal.
April 16, 2012 at 7:49 am #347837
MattKeymasterAha.
April 16, 2012 at 2:01 pm #347847
kim mParticipantQUOTE (Matt @ Apr 16 2012, 08:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Aha.AuthorPosts
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