Identification

[thebiggerthebetter]

I remember seeing this pic before, many years ago. Vaguely. Don't recall anything else.

It looks similar to several Pimelodidae genus, brachy as one, excellent eye by Plecoking - Aguarunichthys, I even thought Luciopimelodus.

If it was such a rare and exciting fish, hard to imagine there is only one photo, quite hostile to ID.

 

[blackbullhead]

I believe this might be an odd color variant of Brachyplatystoma juruense...I'll see if I can dig up a photo for comparison.

 

[blackbullhead]

This is the fish I was thinking of...sorry for the low-quality image. It's a screenshot of a video from a private fb group.

 

[Rpul]

This is the fish I was thinking of...sorry for the low-quality image. It's a screenshot of a video from a private fb group.
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Yes. I’ve seen this floating around myself in the past. A fair few more years then I’d like to remember.
I can 100% say it’s not a Learius , nor pati.
It’s could be a sub sp of jurense, maybe a catch location related thing.
Similar to the bright yellow meglodoras what are coming from one area.
It could even be a unknown catfish.
Who knows what else the Amazon is hiding.

Obviously. It’s hard to 100% know exactly what it is or what the cause of it could be.
could be genetics? (I’m just throwing my two pence in)

I can forward pics to S.grant and see if he has any ideas himself .

very cool regardless !

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

Agree with Blackbullhead, it very much looks like juruense. And my vague recollection confirms it.

Rpul, needless to say it is always awesome to have Steven Grant aka The.Dark.One's input on anything and everything, and especially an unknown fish!