Panaque ID
 

Could you help to ID this small Panaque.
It came from southern Venezuela.

Hi,

it could be L2, maybe L403 too!

Best Regards
Frank

Hi!

L2 is from Brazil.
Probably LDA67 Panaqolus aff. maccus

Bests,
Chris

Hi,

it doesn't look likes for me as an maccus..

Best Regards
Frank

Hi

Das ist kein LDA67 Panaqolus aff. maccus.

Gruß Ralf

Yes, I also think about L002, L403 or Panaque sp. "Peru".

But as far I know this fish came from Southern part of Venezuela. And L002 and L403 are from Brazir, Para (too far from Venezuela).
The distribution of Panaque sp. "Peru" is closer.

It is not my fish. And the owner of this fish says that it is P.maccus. But I don't think that it could be P.maccus.

Hi,
i can't believe the origin.
Who says that it comes from Venezuela?
Do you have the real location, where this individuum was caught?

Until now there are no tiger plecos known from Venezuela, just from brazil and peru.

Cheers Andi

The owner of this fish is my friend from Kiev. His name Igor Sheremetyev
Here is the thread about this panaque from facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

There is written that it was exported from Colombia, but when I met and spoke to him once again about this fish he told me that it was exported from Venezuela through Colombia.

Hi Alex, i agree with you, that this individuum isn't a member from the panaqolus maccus group. It is a member of the tiger pleco group, but until now this group is just known from the amazon basin, and not from the orinoco basin, where the members of the panaqolus maccus group are the only known panaqolus. please check the origin. Maybe the importer or wholesaler has mixed them with some other panaqolus from another import.

Cheers Andi

maybe the fish was caught in Brasil and sent over the border for export. It does look like the L002 or L403 though. cheers jk

andi, thanks:)

I'll try to double check the info about origin. But to tell the truth it is a little bit hard to dispute about this fish with Igor. He is quite smart and quite known in fish species. But he still thinks that it is P.maccus.

Please ask him what makes him think so. It´s clearly not a Panaqolus/Panaque maccus.


cheers

HI Alex,
i've written him at the comment thread. Let's see what happens...

Cheers Andi

andi, thanks a lot:)

Thanks to everybody who took part in this thread.

Acanthicus, well this is I'm going to discuss with him once more:)