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need help with this one

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can anyone help me find out the name of this fella
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Quite sure this is a hybrid Synodontis.
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this is another shot of it
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I think it may well be a "relative" of this one:


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I've seen something offered as S. decora looking very similar to this, which it's obviously not, unfortunately it is a hybrid...
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This is indeed a hybrid - the one which is offered in the UK as S.Ornatipinnis
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This is indeed a hybrid - the one which is offered in the UK as S.Ornatipinnis
I have seen them as this here as well.

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