richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) (01/17/90)
In article <1990Jan16.060658.8570@agate.berkeley.edu> link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes: > >>The only pleco like fish I know >>that stays small is Peckolia vittatus (or affinis, too, I guess) > >Aha! That's it. The Tetra Press book identified the fish as a Peckolia. >The photo in Tetra Press is evidently the same fish described as a >Pterygoplichthys in Riehl/Baensch. Thats a wierd mistake to make. The Pterygoplichthys is a large fish, chocolate brown with largish black spots. The Peckolia is chocolate brown with cream stripes. I recall seeing more than a few mislabeled fish in Baensch; this is probably one of them.
link@soup.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) (01/17/90)
In article <24838@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >In article <1990Jan16.060658.8570@agate.berkeley.edu> link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes: >> >>>The only pleco like fish I know >>>that stays small is Peckolia vittatus (or affinis, too, I guess) >> >>Aha! That's it. The Tetra Press book identified the fish as a Peckolia. >>The photo in Tetra Press is evidently the same fish described as a >>Pterygoplichthys in Riehl/Baensch. > >Thats a wierd mistake to make. The Pterygoplichthys is a large >fish, chocolate brown with largish black spots. The Peckolia >is chocolate brown with cream stripes. > >I recall seeing more than a few mislabeled fish in Baensch; this is >probably one of them. It's the other way around - the Tetra book is mislabeled. The one in Baensch is the one I've got, and it's big. Richard Link Space Sciences Laboratory