Glass catfish cousin

[Ali Day]

My LFS have some fish in amongst their glass catfish
http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/glasscat.xml that they say is a
closely related cousin. It is deeper in body than the normal glass catfish
not coming to such a thin point at the tail, and has a black bar running
down it's length, it has 4 or 6 feelers/barbels as opposed to two on the
normal glass catfish, and they say it grows slightly larger as well. They
have no idea on species name, etc can anyone here help?

Cheers

A

[Derek W. Benson]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:36:45 +0200, "Ali Day"
> wrote:

>My LFS have some fish in amongst their glass catfish
>http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/glasscat.xml that they say is a
>closely related cousin. It is deeper in body than the normal glass catfish
>not coming to such a thin point at the tail, and has a black bar running
>down it's length, it has 4 or 6 feelers/barbels as opposed to two on the
>normal glass catfish, and they say it grows slightly larger as well. They
>have no idea on species name, etc can anyone here help?
>
>Cheers
>
>A
>
If you surf to planetcatfish.com there are a couple of other
Kryptopterus species, do a search on this name. Can it be one of
these? There is a fish in one of my books, Ompok bimaculatus, that
looks something similar to your description, but I don't think it's so
closely related as a "cousin".

-Derek

[Ali Day]

"Derek W. Benson" > wrote in message
...
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:36:45 +0200, "Ali Day"
> > wrote:
>
>>My LFS have some fish in amongst their glass catfish
>>http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/profiles/glasscat.xml that they say is a
>>closely related cousin. It is deeper in body than the normal glass catfish
>>not coming to such a thin point at the tail, and has a black bar running
>>down it's length, it has 4 or 6 feelers/barbels as opposed to two on the
>>normal glass catfish, and they say it grows slightly larger as well. They
>>have no idea on species name, etc can anyone here help?
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>A
>>
> If you surf to planetcatfish.com there are a couple of other
> Kryptopterus species, do a search on this name. Can it be one of
> these? There is a fish in one of my books, Ompok bimaculatus, that
> looks something similar to your description, but I don't think it's so
> closely related as a "cousin".

I'd already searched planetcatfish for Kryptopterus and siluridae? but
didn't do the obvious and look under glass et voila African Glass Catfish
supposedly, completely different family, but looks similar

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/schilbei/parailia/3_2.php

Cheers

A