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mikev wrote:Does anyone have the paper?

I do

Botiidae.

There are now five families of loaches: Nemacheilidae, Balitoridae, Cobitidae, Vaillantellidae and Botiidae.

Šlechtová, V, J Bohlen & HH Tan, 2007. Families of Cobitoidea (Teleostei; Cypriniformes) as revealed from nuclear genetic data and the position of the mysterious genera Barbucca , Psilorhynchus , Serpenticobitis and Vaillantella . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44: 1358–1365. There is now a V...

BTW, there are so many Schistura species with a black spot followed by a yellow/orange spot at the base of the dorsal fin, so this character is pretty useless at the species level.

I am pretty sure these are S. carbonaria.

I just heard this on the radio today and I was just wondering if any one else here is aware of the Chinese folk song that sings of catching Misgurnus.

Erromyzon is not named after a Mexican astronomer, politician, and educational reformer (geez, where did you dig that up ?). The name comes from the Latin error meaning straying from the truth and the Greek myzon, meaning breast, and comes from the fact that members of this genus used to be mistaken...

HH, any idea why Patrick has assigned these fish the common name of 'Sumatran Scooter Loach' if they were actually caught in a different location (Thailand)? I know common names are not to be taken as gospel, but it just seems a strange thing to do if they are not from Sumatra.....why not just call...

avant wrote:Very interesting tubercles.

Bagrus dude, any idea if they are available for sale in Singapore?

I am not sure if they will make it to the retail stores (I have seen other fishes at the importer that sometimes make it to the retail outlets).

The.Dark.One wrote:Is this species being described Bagrus?

AFAIK, Tyson Roberts is supposed to be describing this species.

As promised, here are the pics. Here are the results of 2 hours with this feisty chap. Note the tubercles on the caudal peduncle. http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3844/pict0014qz4.jpg http://img376.imageshack.us/img376/4359/pict0045vr2.jpg http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1925/pict0048qp3.jpg Cl...

These are not B. diabolica, but the undescribed southeastern Thai species. I will be going down to pick some up from Patrick on Tuesday and will get pics out.

The Edds & Ng Nepal fish paper is downloadable here.

Just about finished with Aquarama (what a blast). I met up with our friend Kamphol, who tells me he has Barbucca in stock. Watch for it.