apistomaster wrote:Many of us Apistogramma breeders like almond and/or Oak leaf litter, too.
I also raise wild type Bettas.

Probably not almond but Terminalia catappa leaves.

The first two images belong to the fishes with straight scutes junction zigzag, the eye above the lines shown in the drawing of the type specimen and head arched above snout I called false Corydoras trilineatus in
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17892


http://www.amergim.com ...

The topic will be continued in
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... hp?t=18768

Yes, it should be labelled Corydoras sp. aff. sipaliwini or similarly regardless where it comes from. Otherwise the PlanetCatfish gallery will be a source of confusion. Curiously, in Scotcat gallery, the same picture is contained both as Corydoras bondi and as Corydoras sipaliwini .
For me the ...

The two images listed as C126
http://www.planetcatfish.com/images/full/callichthyidae/corydoras/sp%28c126%29/1.jpg
http://www.planetcatfish.com/images/full/callichthyidae/corydoras/sp%28c126%29/2.jpg
in PlanetCatfish gallery also
seem to belong to two different species, one with long transparent ...

We are slightly off topic. My starting remark proved to be well based and therefore the false Corydoras sipaliwini should be removed and replaced.

Josef

If these were imported I am sure you would be arguing that they are two separate species. By the way the growth rates are different as is the head and body shape.

Ian,

The head and body shape are fairly similar. I guess that the variant is the commonly encountered abberation in domestic animals ...

Perhaps we should call them Corydoras Epilineatus or Corydoras Trilioscopei :wink:

I think it's just variations within the species...my humble opinion.
You may be right, but I expected that experts are able to give exact answer. You can see that I hesitated to present my opinion, I simply ...

The fish you show taken by Jools to me represents a true C. bondi.
You may be right, but the description of Corydoras bondi contains the following.
Head darker than body, with rather indefinite
markings. Fins also without definite markings,
except that there may be small spots
on the central ...

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This image from PlanetCatfish shows a fish that differs from Corydoras sipaliwini and resembles the fishes from the Venezuelan part of Guayana Highland.

Can you expand on your above statement and supply more information regarding location and comparison pictures, to substantiate it.

Ian,
It ...

Coryman wrote:There was a fair amount of speculation as to the true identity of the fish at the time and viewed against the type description it seemed to key in very well except for its locality.

Ian,
Will you specify where the speculation can be found.

Josef

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The image presented by Ian seems to be Corydoras sipaliwini. There are several differences, the most obvious is the long dorsal spine of Corydoras sipaliwini which is somewhat longer than the first soft ray. The false Corydoras sipaliwini has short dorsal spine much shorter than the first soft ray ...

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This image from PlanetCatfish shows a fish that differs from and resembles the fishes from the Venezuelan part of Guayana Highland.

false image has been removed in the meantime

http://math.muni.cz/~niederle/ctr.jpg
Type specimen of Corydoras trilineatus is high and has the eye below the extension of the scutes junction zigzag
and on the line connecting snout tip and dorsal spine root. Head is not arched above snout, but before dorsal fin.
The following image from ...

Indeed does FB sometimes needs somebody who is pointing to this kind of changes. Eschmeyer was faster, he doesn't ignore it.

Erwin

The latter is more useful with its mostly objective information. Only the accepted name at the end of a record is subjective. The former contains too much errors ...