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From: thuan@garnet.berkeley.edu (Thuan Nguyen)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria,rec.aquaria
Subject: Re: Identifying Catfish (Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps)
Summary: Tetra Press made a mistake.
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Date: 17 Jan 90 02:39:19 GMT
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(Richard Link) writes:

<I have a catfish which I bought last March at a length of about 2.5 - 3 inches.
<It's now 6 inches long (and a great deal heavier), and in a much larger tank.
<
<It's apparently a Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps, judging from Riehl/Baensch
<Aquarien Atlas (German edition). This book lists the mature size as 50 cm,

Tetra screwed up.  They switched the photos of Peckoltia vittata with
Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps.  The fish on page 100 is really the Peckoltia,
and the fish on page 98 is really the P. gibbiceps.   Tetra also made
a questionable identification of the Otocinclus specimen, which other
books have variously identified as O. mariae, O. vittatus, and O. arnoldi.

					Thuan