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Posted: **Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:12 pm**

Does anyone know this cute little fella?
Newly wild caught in India
Photo Manu

Posted: **Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:21 pm**

it looks like Travancoria elongata.

mick

Posted: **Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:55 pm**

Yeah Mick i was thinking that also, but the gap between the pectoral fins seem a bit wide from the picture below. I was first thinking it's a Homaloptera tweediei but from India? Puzzled now....

Posted: **Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:07 pm**

i left the tweediei because jostis fish lacks the bold caudal pattern.
i checked the psiloryhnchus species in the book but there is'nt any that resemble the fish.

mick

Posted: **Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:19 pm**

Although there is nothing to indicate size I would opt for a juvenile Travancoria elongata

Posted: **Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:07 pm**

I was told it was a new specis, but I don't know.
If I get good proposals here till over the week end ( I am out) I will ask back to India.

Posted: **Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:32 am**

I got this answer from India today:

The hill stream loach is a spec of Bhavania australias but it is completely different spec. it is wider and the size I have seen in the wild is around 8cm.

Which I have never heard of.

Posted: **Fri Nov 28, 2008 5:18 pm**

Bhavania australis (Western Ghat Loach)

It still reminds me of a Homaloptera sp. Ones like the Homaloptera pillaii, Homaloptera montana...etc which is also from western Ghats.

Interesting.

Posted: **Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:07 pm**

this is somewhat similar

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=11920

sl

Posted: **Sat Dec 06, 2008 1:43 pm**

Sorry, I have so far got no new feedback from India. I'll be back when I hear from him.

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