wc Rio Nanay ?cf? bitaeniata

[anewbie]

These were sold as wc bitaeniata - one of 5 - this one might be a miss or if stuffy Ms.

My understanding is the rio Nanay population is a little less flashy then some of the other populations but of course this is what the seller told the importer so who knows - maybe it is really a bunny from south dakota.

 

[Mike Wise]

The bitaeniata from the Rio Nanay/Mazon/Mormon is a genetically different species from those in other locations in the Amazon Basin. It was listed as "A. sp. 5" in Tougard et al. 2017. Some of these population (like from the Rio Momon) are more colorful than other populations in this species. Other species in the bitaeniata-complex are similarly colored to the fish in the photo, so without a positively known collecting location it is impossible to say which species that you have (without a DNA test).