I.D. This Catfish

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It's a rather unusual-looking doradid. Could be slightly scarred or banged up. Strange plates on top of the caudal peduncle, too. Almost looks like orinocodoras eigenmanni.
 
agree with Knifegill but cannot recognize the species at this angle/photo
 
Need more pics. Does not look like any striped raph I've seen, and I've seen a ton. Is it a mutation? Damage? Is it a similar raph species?

The hugest boggle there are the white lines coming out of the lateral spines. Not normal. Could be damage from the rocks (never keep raphs with stones, especially rough stones, EVER!) And the plates along the top of the tail are also very pronounced, unlike in most other armatulus. I strongly suspect this is a by-catch. Is the belly sort of marbled or speckled?
 
knifegill said:
Need more pics. Does not look like any striped raph I've seen, and I've seen a ton. Is it a mutation? Damage? Is it a similar raph species?

The hugest boggle there are the white lines coming out of the lateral spines. Not normal. Could be damage from the rocks (never keep raphs with stones, especially rough stones, EVER!) And the plates along the top of the tail are also very pronounced, unlike in most other armatulus. I strongly suspect this is a by-catch. Is the belly sort of marbled or speckled?
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I think the lines that are vertical are actually the back edge of the scutes. This edge is rather clear and at this angle could just appear to look like a line. :) again bad angle so I could be wrong. Different pics of different angles is a must for ID on this.
 
knifegill said:
Need more pics. Does not look like any striped raph I've seen, and I've seen a ton. Is it a mutation? Damage? Is it a similar raph species?

The hugest boggle there are the white lines coming out of the lateral spines. Not normal. Could be damage from the rocks (never keep raphs with stones, especially rough stones, EVER!) And the plates along the top of the tail are also very pronounced, unlike in most other armatulus. I strongly suspect this is a by-catch. Is the belly sort of marbled or speckled?
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That's the only pic I got and the shop it's at is 40 minutes away so I'm not going back to take more pics, sorry. And it never moved from that position while I was there so I can't tell you what it's belly looked like. But I can say that they aren't scars they are stripes. After looking up Striped Ralphael Catfish on Google I am fairly certain that's what it was, prolly just underfed.

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