Petricolas from Atlantis

[11petro]

Atlantis have wild petriolas listed for sale. Their website

http://www.cichlids.net/pages/fish.php? ... Tanganyika

Question for the experts here: are these the REAL petricolas?

[MatsP]

Using this:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... lucipinnis

I'd say that it's

Synodontis lucipinnis

. I'm basing this on:
1. Irregular shape spots that are fairly large.
2. "window" in the anal fin.

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Mats

[11petro]

That's what I thought too.

[MarkSmith]

The photo that Atlantis has labelled as S. petricola is a stock photo that they've had in their files for some time. Whenever they get in what the Brichard's sell as S. petricola, this images usually is posted onto their site. Hard to say what they really have at the moment, as Atlantis has informed me that they ofen get in mixed species when they order S. petricola from the Brichard price list.

[MatsP]

Mark, that is a good point. I wish sites that sell fish online would take pictures of the actual stock (at least for the more expensive and species that may be misidentified).

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Mats

[MarkSmith]

Indeed. I notified Atlantis of that, and one of the employees indicated that they would try to post a photo of the actual species in hand.