Please ID my new catfish

Subject: Re: Please ID my new catfish Mon Feb 16, 2009 4:42 pm

Silver Dollar dude wrote:

Wyomingite wrote:

Pretty sure it’s a bagrid and not a channel cat (ictalurid). The nasal barbels are too long, the maxillary barbels appear superior rather than inferior (ictalurids usually have inferior maxillary barbels drooping over the corners of the mouth), the dorsal fin has 8 rays (IIRC, most ictalurids have 6), the anal fin starts farther behind the pelvic fins than in I. punctatus (or the majority of ictalurids, for that matter), and the caudal fin is forked all the way to the caudal peduncle (IIRC, no ictalurid has a caudal fin that severely forked). Pimelodids only have three pairs of barbels, lacking nasal barbels. Bagrid of the genus Mystus or Hemibagrus would be my guess.

I can get ya that far without diggin’ further. Give me a day or two and I may be able to narrow it down to a species.

WYite

Ok thanks I'll wait for some correct info.

Did you read what he posted dude?....It is pretty correct and gives you a very good starting point

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Damn Ivan, remind me to never play the id a fish game against you. Wink

Looking at the photos you found it does look like it.

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Wyomingite wrote:

albino Hemibagrus nemerus

Second pic down on the page. Does your fish have the dark edge on the adipose fin? Looks like it to me from the photos.

WYite

Yes he has a dark adipose fin. Thanks for the link I am going to view it.