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Jakob;2168491; said:
No, it's a leucosticta.
A 'Jurupari' is the butchered term for basically all Satanoperca online because people don't know how to label fish correctly and they're very similiar as juveniles. Satanoperca jurupari and Satanoperca leucosticta are two different fish.
They are very similar to the untrained eye, but japes is right.
Yeah, unfortunately jurupari is the common name even though it isn't the correct species. Japes nailed it though, a Satanoperca leucosticta, and a very beautiful race of them as well. Excellant coloartion.
Well part of the problem is the fact up until 1989 or so, S. leucosticta was considered just a color form of S. jurupari, not a seperate species despite orginally being described seperately. When Kullander reconstructed the Satanoperca genus, he elavated S. leucosticta back to species status.
You would think 20 years would be long enough for a common name to change, but in the 30+ years since saums and mayans took over for riv's and festae, they are still called green and red terrors in most lfs ... so 20 years really isn't all that long.
The spotted Satanoperca at least around here seemed to be named correct, ie S. daemon but most of the nonspotted ones (S. jurupari, S. leucosticta, S. mapiritensis) except S. pappaterra are sold as 'jurupari' or sometimes just 'eartheater.'
You would think 20 years would be long enough for a common name to change, but in the 30+ years since saums and mayans took over for riv's and festae, they are still called green and red terrors in most lfs ... so 20 years really isn't all that long.
The spotted Satanoperca at least around here seemed to be named correct, ie S. daemon but most of the nonspotted ones (S. jurupari, S. leucosticta, S. mapiritensis) except S. pappaterra are sold as 'jurupari' or sometimes just 'eartheater.'
I'm lucky if I remember not to call them Geo. jurupari 
And that is a really nice looking one, love the blue. I'm pretty sure mine actually is a jurupari, and by some miracle it's still alive (jurupari are my "bad luck" fish).
And that is a really nice looking one, love the blue. I'm pretty sure mine actually is a jurupari, and by some miracle it's still alive (jurupari are my "bad luck" fish).