Help Please!!!!!!

[Shovelnose]

Yo .Jus became a member man. Names Balaji and im from India. I have been a catfish fanatic for years now.I have been using the awesome tips dis site has been givin to raise dese beautiful fish. hats off to everyone involved. Now wat i hav is not really a problem. I caught this catfish lik a 14 months ago in a lake nearby. got a couple. unfortunately 1 of em was pecked to death by my rainbows and red tail sharks. dere s one left and i really dono wat he is. i guessed he s probably the striped asian but he doesn have prominent stripes at al. i have attached a few pics man. If anyone could help me out it would be great. I have a coupla Pims , one tiger shovelnose (twas a pair but one was swallowed whole by the Pims) , a coupla adult feather fins , a pair of cuckoos , one striped raphael , a coupla albino plecos , a pair of asian bumblebees, a pair of asian upside downs, 4 pairs of asian stone cats (seperate tank), one rainbow shark , 2 red tailed sharks, one walking cat ,a coupla yo yo and coolie loaches and this unknown species.

[MatsP]

You seem to have missed attaching the pictures.

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Mats

[Richard B]

Welcome to the site I look forward to seeing some pics

[loachy_406]

Welcome to PlanetCatfish!

[Shovelnose]

The photo is in the following link. Ive had this fish for over a year without knowing wat he is and d fact dat he s caught from the wild is really eatin me away. thanks in advance.

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[Shovelnose]

not a very good pic i kno but my cams in service and i had to use my phone.

[Richard B]

You're right -it's not a great photo - we could really do with one of the entire fish showing barbel length, tail shape etc

It looks like some sort of Ariid but the location is wrong, but there are so many other possibilities, i couldn't say without a better pic, Maybe Silurus will chip in, as he is your best bet with only this limited pic

[Shovelnose]

Luckily he decided to pose better dis time. chk if dis is better.


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[Silurus]

Mystus gulio

[Shovelnose]

Perfect match man. Thanks. Just wondering how I found him here. Any theories

[Silurus]

This species is common in large water bodies in the lowlands of India. I'm not surprised you caught it.

[Shovelnose]

Im just surprised because the typical locality of this spcies is listed as Higher parts of Gangetic estuaries in its profile. I must say the colouring is quite gorgeous. Complete grey on the top and pure white on the underside. Eats anything edible, loves worms, will try to eat feeder fish without too much success and doesn like my Red Tail Rainbow Sharks at all.....

[Silurus]

I think you have confused type locality with typical locality. The type locality is the location where the individual(s) on which the description is based is/are caught. A great many fish species are found in areas outside of the type locality.

[MatsP]

I think you have confused type locality with typical locality. The type locality is the location where the individual(s) on which the description is based is/are caught. A great many fish species are found in areas outside of the type locality.

Not to mention that sometimes the type location is not where the fish normally lives. I'm not sure if it was one the fishes you've described HH or someone else's description, that have a type location of "Market Place in ..." or something like that. Another example that I have seen is would be "Aquatic shop in ...", which also isn't where the fish can be found IN NATURE.

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Mats

[Shovelnose]

Oh yes. I did assume type locality meant habitat. Its actually good news then if the Gulio is found here. Thanks for correcting me.