ID Help needed

[Evan]

I had a really hard time getting a shot of these guys. I had to take these from about 10ft away. I am hoping these are good enough for an ID otherwise I will have to try again.

Thanks for the help!

 

[Mike Wise]

Your fish show rather generic markings & I cannot see the tail very well. Do you have any other information on the fish? What did the supplier call them? Do you know which country they came from. I definitely will need clearer & larger photos for a proper identification. Even photos of them in a fish bag or pressed against a side of the tank will help. It intensifies the dark markings. Right now all I can say is that it is a regani-group species. That reduces the number of possibilies to about 100.:tongue:

 

[Evan]

OK, these are a little bit better

I do not know there locality of origin but they were sold with the trade name of Apistogramma sp. "Diamond".

 

[Mike Wise]

OK. The last photos are much better. Apistos with the name "Diamond" (there are several that have been sold under this name) usually come from Peru. Without seeing vertical bars on the flanks of the fish, I can't be positive but I am fairly sure that you have a population of A. cf. eunotus. It seems similar to a fish pictured in the Japanese book "Tropical Fish Collection 6, South American Dwarf Cichlid (page 125, bottom). Their fish was imported into Japan from Belgium under the name A. sp. Tamara. They had no collecting information and assumed that it was from around Tamara, Colombia. The eunotus-complex species have never been found in Colombia. The Tamara name probably comes from a lake of that name south of Iquitos, Peru. If I were you - since you don't know where the fish originate - I would just call them A. cf. eunotus.

 

[Evan]

Thanks Mike. I appreciate the help.