Ashdavid, Q about wolves

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The Hoplias Aimara and the Macrophthalmus are the same sp.
(Pellegrin, 1907) caught the same sp. in F. Guyana very near the same spot Valenciennes did in Cayenne F. Guyana in 1846
Pellegrin's did not know of Valenciennes earlier discovery at the time. So the name mac should not be used only Aimara should be used since its the older of the 2 names.
Both of the original specimens are here today in France at the natural history museum. Both have been studied and both are exactly the same species. An ichthologist who made this discovery a couple of years ago. Is publishing his thesis here shortly, and once it hits print, changes in the books will follow. As far as monsters sizes in the hoplias family. There is only 2...Aimara and Lacerdae....One easy way to tell an Aimara from Lacerdae is the black spot on the opercle membrane.

http://www.care2.com/c2c/photos/view/123/677149167/H__Aimara_black_spot_on_the_opercle_membrane/
 
Aimara - thanks for the info, I didn;t know that, I've always seen them listed as 2 difference species.

And thanks for posting the video Sic, very impressive, they are beasts, makes me want one even more :D
 
Do you know where (which city) those specimens are in France please because I want to go see them :)
 
man oh man. that wolf is NASTY. I can't wait till i'm rich. So many tanks, so many fish, so little time.
 
I live near France and might move there soon :D

Fomoris - whereabouts in France are you? Could you tell me some good fish shops that stock predators like wolves, snakeheads, arowanas etc? :)
 
I live in Nancy, "Meurthe-et-Moselle" (54000)... In France there is not any shop that do have snakeheads, wolves or any other monster fish (except some O. bicirrhosum)... I have visited many fish shop all around France and I have never seen other fish that classic community fish !!! There was one, Igarapé, located in Paris but it closed (only professionnal now): that's a shame but the owner have, sometimes, some nice fish for us... All of my fish were ordered from Igarapé (P. nattereri and S. brandtii) except my H. malabaricus which came from Glaser society, in Germany (I think there is only 2 or 3 Hoplias of any kind in France (public aquariums excepted))... All other pet shop are really weak and can't have nice fish even by special order... France is the worth country for monster fish keepers (hopefully, Germany is close) ;)

EDIT: There is sometimes nice fish that arrive as "special order" in classic LFS but barely never... So, I have already seen those: P. delhezi, P. senegalus, C. chitala leucistic, quite rare plecos, rays (Igarapé), nice catfish, O. bicirrhosum but that's all...
 
wow man, I didn't know that. I thought Paris or the south would have monster fish.

Put it this way, I did find one website for a shop in Cannes that had bichirs and stingrays.

I would have thought they'd have snakeheads and wolves and bichirs etc

Germany is quite good.

Put it this way, France cannot be as bad as Spain, there is NOTHING here in the way of fish, they basically don't keep fish.
 
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