Sp faranah

[Polyaddict86]

I don't pretend to be a so called poly expert, I think it's funny because how can anyone be an expert on something that's been studied so little. But I don't believe this is a faranah lap.
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Not Soo much the colors but the patterns.
Now check out this thread.
https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/polypterus-sp-dabola.140622/

Pics from the above thread.
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Anyone think the above pics aren't almost identical patterns (minus the flash and camera differences) to these.
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Best part is the pics from the dabola thread aren't what is known as sp.dabola today.

Make matters worse from my understanding sp.dabola aren't even collected dabola but in faranah so why couldnt the Polys we are calling sp.faranah actually be sp.faranah ? Marketing ? Who knows
All of this just proves how confusing the subject is.

Imo faranah laps have multiple verticle lines and banding thats more broken up. Where as the sp.faranah or whatever it is does not. Head shape is different too but not sure there's enough there to use that as part of the argument either way.
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Now some will say "small differences in appearence means nothing" but i dont buy that. Small differences are what seperates Nigerian laps and faranah laps or koliba and koloton. Infact one of the characteristics in koliba/koloton are messy patterns vs organized. Not a huge difference but a difference none the less. Thick bands and head markings/shape = black volta endli, flat head and thinner bands = guinean endli. Again small differences.

Faranah lap on the lower left. Mystery on the upper right.

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I'm no expert but from reading older threads and discussing the subject on FB with king El I do believe there's a difference.

Candy bar could very well be a faranah lap, i don't think she is but to be fair why not. All of these guinean Polys share the same bodies of water. It's not to far of a stretch to think they are all identified.

Infact all sp means is undescribed right so why doesnt sp.koloton or koliba start such a debate lol even though they are thought to be laps.


There's older posts and what not talking about differences but 1; those people are not active and can't confirm or deny their intensions and 2; who gives a crap right use our own eyes and decide.

Well said brother

 

[Alexkoj]

Good stuff J jaws7777 and Hao , when I started this thread, I wasn’t aware that there was a material diffferwnce between a faranah lap and a sp faranah, hence the thread title. I do get the nuance a little after your respective posts. although the difference is very slight.

But I don’t appreciate Dloks being uncool when the dude really hasn’t done much but lurk till recently. Catching polys with toyin in the Congo.. really?

 

[jaws7777]

Tbh I thought mine was an sp.dabola when I saw the pic before I purchased it buuuuuuuut how can we call something sp.dabola when it's not caught there.....mhhhhhhhhhhh (scratching head)

 

[Polyaddict86]

Tbh I thought mine was an sp.dabola when I saw the pic before I purchased it buuuuuuuut how can we call something sp.dabola when it's not caught there.....mhhhhhhhhhhh (scratching head)

At first i didnt think that yours was sp.dabola, looks different form it. It didnt really had the endli looking body that we usually see i dabolas.
But now pictures of sp. faranah in FB showed up and it has a clear id.

 

[Dloks]

But I don’t appreciate Dloks being uncool when the dude really hasn’t done much but lurk till recently. Catching polys with toyin in the Congo.. really?

What in the hell did I say that was so call being “uncool” cause I statted your fish isn’t the same as jaws? What you got butt hurt? Lurking? I’ve been on this forum for years I probably kept my first bichir when you were in diapers. And I said catching poly in the Congo was a joke couldn’t you recognise that?

 

[jaws7777]

You two should be mad at the guy that called you both "girls"

 

[Dloks]

You two should be mad at the guy that called you both "girls"

Lol it doesn’t bother me none neither does OP, guy got something against me but hey this gives me something to do while I’m taking a crap

 

[jaws7777]

At first i didnt think that yours was sp.dabola, looks different form it. It didnt really had the endli looking body that we usually see i dabolas.
But now pictures of sp. faranah in FB showed up and it has a clear id.

You know me about as good as anyone on this site so you know I don't give a shhhh about sounding smart but don't the SP. Faranah look like look this sp.dabola take away color just looking at patterns and headshape ? I'm not saying it's a fact but look at pics of more recent sp.dabola they look more endli where as the older ones look more lap.


Wouldn't be too far of a stretch to think no one knows wtf is really going on with all these sp.s and our main source of info is the seller.

 

[jaws7777]

Man it's like if you can take away the color,lighting, and maybe have shot it with the same camera it would be like twins.

Or is it just my eyes?

 

[jaws7777]

Lol it doesn’t bother me none neither does OP, guy got something against me but hey this gives me something to do while I’m taking a crap

I hate when someone swoops in with the whole whiney "take it to pm I can't deal with aggression" ugh shaaaat up