Male or female Jaguar? About 6 inch all the same fish.
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With the bars on the fish I'm guessing female. Males usually don't get horizontal bars like that. Find her a mate and see if she lays eggs. These fish will pair up easily with the right gender.
Doesn't look like Honduran jag. They usually have swiggly patterns and not dot patterns. Unless that is a female which it looks like with the horizontal lines and yellow base body. But vent looks like a male. Uess it's under 3 inches.
I would echo this, because managuense has been transplanted from Mexico to Panama as a sport and good eatin fish, so the idea one could actually pin-point a location variant is pretty difficult.
And it often depend on the turbidity of the habitat it is found in.
A variant from a clear, deep lake like Lago Arenal, may evolutionally need to be much less bright in color than a variant from a turbid river.
Males in turbid rivers do need to be spotted by females more easily to get to pass on their genes, than in a pristine lake, and in transparent conditions, those that stand out too much, may be more easily spotted by predators. Those that live, will beget similar offspring, those that don't well......
An interesting comparison, (at least to me) are the cichlids of the deep clear rift lakes in Africa, where males of many species are striking blue.
This helps camouflage these cichlids from aerial predators, above, but presents (from the side), obvious great views for females.
We seldom see this type deep blue in New World Cichlid.
Riverine and shallow (in comparison) lake cichlids need different camouflage in this area of the world.
Take Herichthys species like carpintus.
From the side, and underwater males are easily spotted by females.
But from above, where most cichlid predation originates, in shallow more turbid water, the carpintus patterns make them much harder to see.
In the pic above, there are 3 adult Herichthys carpintus
This helps camouflage these cichlids from aerial predators, above, but presents (from the side), obvious great views for females.
We seldom see this type deep blue in New World Cichlid.
Riverine and shallow (in comparison) lake cichlids need different camouflage in this area of the world.
Take Herichthys species like carpintus.
From the side, and underwater males are easily spotted by females.
But from above, where most cichlid predation originates, in shallow more turbid water, the carpintus patterns make them much harder to see.
In the pic above, there are 3 adult Herichthys carpintus