ATF ID?
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X2. Im starting to see the differences between F and V's
Except the last picture looks like a VATF. Are all the pics of the same fish??
X2. Im starting to see the differences between F and V's
Except the last picture looks like a VATF. Are all the pics of the same fish??
Since we own big atf's, we tend to forget how they look like when small. I have a juvi V & F in the same tank right now, Juvi Vittatus are thick even when fry the tail should have some red on top. As you can see in the above pictures that atf only has red on the bottom half of it's tail, usually indicating another sp of atf other then Vittatus. Last is the color, you wont be able to tell the difference in the picture since i think the color reflects off the light. But this is my second time i owned both in the same tank and i still notice the F has blue on the back where vittatus has a much lighter greenish grey color. The dead give away is the body comparison, if you ever see two in the same tank @ the same size the Forskalii looks like it could fit in the Vittatus mouth thank god it's still too long to get eaten.
All the pics are the same fish. My friend got it for me so I have no clue where it came from. Thanks for the help you guys. Had to make sure its not a V
you are 100% correct
forskahlii, Hydrocyon Cuvier [G.] 1819:354, Pl. 28 (fig. 1) [Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (N. S.) (Série A) Zoologie v. 5; ref. 1017] Nile River, Egypt. Holotype: MNHN 0000-1691. Type catalog: Bertin 1948:29-30 [ref. 19577]. See discussion in Brewster 1986:193 [ref. 8104] about type specimens; she treats MNHN 1691 as the holotype. Misspelled forskali in Pellegrin 1921:635 [ref. 30437]. See also Salmo roschal Walbaum 1792. •Valid as Hydrocynus forskahlii (Cuvier 1819) -- (Paugy 1984:170 [ref. 6183], Brewster 1986:193 [ref. 8104], Paugy & Guégan 1989:68 [ref. 26479] as forskalii, Lévêque et al. 1989:116 [ref. 26480] as forskalii, Paugy & Bénech 1989:300 [ref. 26478] as forskalii, Paugy in Lévêque et al. 1990:200 [ref. 21589] as forskalii, Paugy et al. 1990:337 [ref. 26477] as forskalii, Dankwa et al. 1999:18 [ref. 28023] as forskalii, Seegers et al. 2003:36 [ref. 28087], Paugy & Schaefer 2007:357 [ref. 30022]). Current status: Valid as Hydrocynus forskahlii (Cuvier 1819). Alestidae. Distribution: Africa. Habitat: freshwater.