SA cats are known by many names, and goes by many names especially by the natives. Though all SA cats have similar syns/names, such as flavican, zungaro and dorado. I look at it like this each SA cat have syns/names that stick. For example flavican which is also a syn for jau but it doesn't stick, zungaro zungaro does. We hobbiest go by what the cats often goes by or most commonly known as in the hobby. Even natives refer to the jau as manguruyu, zungaro, lutkeni, or dorado (depending on it's shade of color). I guess you could say majority rules.
But I also agree it can be confusing. In this hobby it gets confusing. It doesn't get any easier either when the fishes gets a name change. Flavicans in the hobby is 99% of the time is in reference to the rous, as flav is old and rous is newer name but that's settled in now. But flavs are still sold by flavs and somtimes dourada/durado/dorado/rousseauxii. Too much of a headache at the end of the day.
Take the native Large Mouth Bass for example. They also go by/known as brown bass, widemouth bass, bigmouth, black bass, bucket mouth, Potter's fish, Florida bass, Florida largemouth, green bass, green trout, gilsdorf bass, linesides, Oswego bass, southern largemouth and northern largemouth. But most commonly known as Large Mouth Bass.
But I also agree it can be confusing. In this hobby it gets confusing. It doesn't get any easier either when the fishes gets a name change. Flavicans in the hobby is 99% of the time is in reference to the rous, as flav is old and rous is newer name but that's settled in now. But flavs are still sold by flavs and somtimes dourada/durado/dorado/rousseauxii. Too much of a headache at the end of the day.
Take the native Large Mouth Bass for example. They also go by/known as brown bass, widemouth bass, bigmouth, black bass, bucket mouth, Potter's fish, Florida bass, Florida largemouth, green bass, green trout, gilsdorf bass, linesides, Oswego bass, southern largemouth and northern largemouth. But most commonly known as Large Mouth Bass.
