Synodontis budgetti ?

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Synodontis budgetti ?

Post by Jools »

Posted on belhalf of Cilissa Antea.

Hi there, feel free to use the pics of the fish, but I would really just
like to know wht kind of cat it is. I think it looks like your image of
<I>Synodontis budgetti</I>, but its hard to tell.

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Post by Silurus »

Nope, that's not S. budgetti, which has distinct projections on the humeral process like S. acanthomias (only not as numerous). Overall morphology is very like S. gambiensis, but the coloration is a little too mottled (S. gambiensis is a uniformly-colored species).
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