laetacara ID

[fernandoperini]

Dorsigera?

tanks

 

[fernandoperini]

curviceps?

 

[ste12000]

Hi, the first picture is almost certainly Dorsigera, the fish you thought was Curviceps is actually Laetacara sp 'Humpback' or 'Buckelkopf'...

Stunning fish, are they yours???

 

[tjudy]

I agree... the first is L. curviceps and the second sp. 'Buckelkopf'. Has that species been described/named yet?

 

[fernandoperini]

ste12000 - the Buckelkopf is my

tjudy - I do not understand what they told me

 

[Mike Wise]

In my opinion the first photo shows 2 different species: front fish L. dorsigera; rear fish L. sp. Buckelkopf. The second photo is L. sp. Buckelkopf (which has not yet been scientifically described). Did these fish come in the same shipment??

 

[ste12000]

I agree... the first is L. curviceps and the second sp. 'Buckelkopf'. Has that species been described/named yet?

I was going to ask that myself..As far as i can make out it has not been, But i am far from being an expert on these things..

Stunning fish, and one ill add to my hitlist..

 

[tjudy]

Now that I look at the first image more closely, yes there are two species. The fish with the spot in the dorsal is mostl likely dorsigera, though I have seen some 'spotty' curviceps-like fish is stores lately. I wonder if they have not bee mixed a bit. The other is the 'buckekopf'.

 

[fernandoperini]

this was my fish

dorsigera of female?

 

[Mike Wise]

L. dorsigera; probably a female.

 

[Boupette]

In my opinion the first photo shows 2 different species: front fish L. dorsigera; rear fish L. sp. Buckelkopf. The second photo is L. sp. Buckelkopf (which has not yet been scientifically described). Did these fish come in the same shipment??

Sorry to come back with it after so many years.

The first pic belongs to Cabie, someone I knew in the hobby and lost her trace. It shows indeed a L.dorsigera and L.sp. "Buckelkopf" now named L. araguaiae. At the time, in 2005 or 2006, I was breeding L. curviceps and L. sp."Buckelkopf" which I had a pair of each in our fish association in Quebec, Canada. I sold her some L.sp. "Buckelkopf." and she had already L. dorsigera. She never reproduced them and I lost the strain.


http://www.aquaryus.com/forum/topic/6631-mes-bacs/

 

[JasonC]

So does anyone have any good links that show diagnostic features of the different laetacara species? Have a few and have no idea what specific species they are.

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[Mike Wise]

There are some recent scientific papers re-describing L. dorsigera & L. curviceps, plus L. araguaiae & the new L. flamannellus. There are several books that describe the difference very well - or you could post photos for the member to ID.