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Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 2:20
PM
Subject: Re: NFC: Re: mystery exotic
catfish taken on Titusville FL weekendfishing trip
How many of those fish did you manage to collect? If you
get them to stay alive and possibly breed would you be interested in selling
one? Unless I ever get out there and catch a some
myself.
Scott
Doug Dame wrote:
> Jim Capelle
wrote:
>
> >> Well as I see Chris is taken care
of the picture, my vote
> >> is now Pauauchenipterus
galeatus by looking at the tail
> >> shape and coloring
showing today.
>
> Pauauchenipterus galeatus ? Is that
spelling correct? How 'bout "Parauchenipterus galeatus" (aka the
Driftwood Catfish) ? I can't find a picture of that on the web,
though.
>
> Chris' pictures are good on shape and color (light
red-brown) of the fish as seen in the tank, but the fresh-caught-in-the-hand
coloration was much more festive ....it didn't strike me as a brown fish at
all, it was greenish-purple-ish with bright green-apple patches on the gill
cover and face, with long (1/2" on a 2" fish) black barbels. (I wasn't sure it
even had 2 prs of barbels until I saw 'em swimming in a tank, but it does.)
Cross-section distinctly triangular, like a corydoras. Definitely has a
major-league stand-up dorsal fin. May be a juvenile of course, which could
complicate things. (Mine are still in a water mix that's still 60% the dark
tannic water they came from, so I can't see 'em clearly enough yet to give a
much better description.)
>
> I don't see anything on the USGS's
"Nonindigenous Aquatic Species" website ( http://nas.er.usgs.gov/ ), or the
Florida IFAS section on exotic fish, that strikes me as being likely to be
this fish. Some of the USGS-NAS listings don't have a picture of the
fish in question though, and I personally have no knowledge of "aquarium
catfish" to bring to bear on this ID problem. They don't document Par.
galeatus as being found in Florida. (Not that that means it's not, of
course.)
>
> Chris (Guppenberger) ==> Did you send copies
of the Exo-Cat (tm) pictures to your USGS exotics contact ?
>
>
d.d.
>
> --------------------------------
> Doug
Dame
> Interlachen FL USA