Hypostomus myersi picture

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Hypostomus myersi picture

Post by Karsten S. »

Hi,

the picture on the species page is not IMHO.
Gosline, 1947 wrote:Pectorals reaching about 1/3 of the way along ventrals...
...pectorals in the picture seem to be significantly longer.
Are there any information available from where exactly the pictured Hypostomus came from ?
Gosline, 1947 wrote:The ground colour of this fish is steel gray. In four specimens the head and body are covered with whitish punctulations;in the fifth specimen the fore part of the body is marked with predominantly vertical,irregular light lines. The dorsal fin has light punctulations on the outer part of the rays and interradial membranes; there tends to be an irregular light line running down the basal half of each interradial membrane. Other fins with light punctulations which only occasionally tend to form lines. The belly seems to be mottled in those areas where plates have developed.
This is what I consider to be the "real" H. myersi::
https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazon ... /large.jpg

This species is well known in the Iguazu area and always looks quite similar, often with clear whitish/yellowish fin tips and fine wormlined pattern which might have faded during conservation.
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Re: Hypostomus myersi picture

Post by Jools »

Yes, I agree even just on patterning alone.

The fish in question was ID'ed by Hans / Ingo from an import from Parana into Pier Aquatics around 2011. However, as is customary around March / CSG convention time, there were other imports including, IIRC, from Paraguay. It could be the name was mixed up at the time the photo was taken - those weekends are hectic!

I was thinking about what it could be, so made a list of the light spotted, dark spp.
  1. (Definitely not this, Rio Sao Francisco)
I have to admit, I am struggling to place the well patterned fish currently/wrongly in .

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Re: Hypostomus myersi picture

Post by Karsten S. »

Hi Jools,
Jools wrote: 15 Feb 2025, 10:29 ... so made a list of the light spotted, dark Hypostomus spp
much shorter dorsal
dorsal spine rather too long, odontodes on pectoral too strong
dorsal fin rather higher in margaritifer, pectoral spine shorter
Head profile is not matching.
Pectoral spine too long, dorsal fin rather too short
with dark spotted dorsal fin at the base, no white spots on dorsal
much darker body colour and less spots
Jools wrote:I have to admit, I am struggling to place the well patterned fish currently/wrongly in .
I don't think that it is any of the species listed above, but unfortunately I can also not propose a species name.
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