golden datnoid aka?

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i've been seeing a lot of these golden datnoids that are being marked as "rare". to me they look exactly like indos. have u guys seen any of these? :nilly: if they're a diff sp. what would they be?? i saw these guys at tong's and other places around LA county
 
iORi;775515; said:
i've been seeing a lot of these golden datnoids that are being marked as "rare". to me they look exactly like indos. have u guys seen any of these? :nilly: if they're a diff sp. what would they be?? i saw these guys at tong's and other places around LA county
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If they look like indos I'd say their Indos...... Got any pics....
 
iORi;775515; said:
i've been seeing a lot of these golden datnoids that are being marked as "rare". to me they look exactly like indos. have u guys seen any of these? :nilly: if they're a diff sp. what would they be?? i saw these guys at tong's and other places around LA county
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mmmm pics
 
I've seen those those dats at tong's... their all thin bar dats... some of them are really nice too...
 
i dont have any pics but the ones at tong's looked very much like indos. priced at 24.99??? i dont remmeber really but somewhere around there. IMO its too much for indos in LA area. i just wanted to know if anyone knew if golden dats was just another name for indos. :)
 
iORi;776942; said:
i dont have any pics but the ones at tong's looked very much like indos. priced at 24.99??? i dont remmeber really but somewhere around there. IMO its too much for indos in LA area. i just wanted to know if anyone knew if golden dats was just another name for indos. :)
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Common names are irrelevant. "Gold datnoid" is a remnant from when there were essentially two recognized species of datnoid available to U.S. hobbyists: 1) silver datnoids (D. quadrifasciatus, now D. polota) and 2) gold datnoids (D. microlepis, now split into three recognized species D. pulcher, D. microlepis, and D. undecimradiatus). (NGTs (D. campbelli) weren't available until recently.)

Thinbars (D. undecimradiatus) and widebars (D. pulcher) were once thought to be the same species as Indos (D. microlepis). D. undecimradiatus was not described until 1994 and D. pulcher not until 1998. Thus, a "gold datnoid" could be any of the three species, but it's likely to be either a thinbar or an Indo, because any LFS with a true widebar would advertise it as such and would have presumably paid for and charged a higher price for it. Absent a picture, I couldn't tell you whether they are Indos or thinbars though.
 
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