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A young , approx 10" Scobina....If you know anything about.......polymorphism

So a 10" wild caught mature scobina is young? Good job mr... ;)

And henlei isent actually a genus name.... cos david knows better than the biologists! :grinno:

And dont tell me that scobina looks anything like the 3 pics i just posted. -.-
 
So a 10" wild caught mature scobina is young? Good job mr... ;)

And henlei isent actually a genus name.... cos david knows better than the biologists! :grinno:

And dont tell me that scobina looks anything like the 3 pics i just posted. -.-

WE ARE COMPAIRING THE 1ST PIC YOU POSTED NOT ANY OF THE OTHERS
 
Anders scobina are similar to these rays many people believe they are scobina ! I have seen scobina though and i don't believe it is one myself just because of the size the xingu gets vs the scobina.the xingu ray maybe it's own undiscribed species or just a variant but i don't believe myself that its a variant of a scobina would be bigger.but who really knows how big scobina get? I have never seen a 10 year scobina before??? Don't be so defensive Anders if you look I'n the aqua log this ray is pictured and described by Ross as a humerosa variant.I've only seen pictures of humerosa rays and one to could argue the same thing about these two rays. Humerosa do also get larger like xingus do.
 
I have a hard time seeing how you could confuse the two unlesh you wernt that into rays.

Humerosa is more of a term than a species at this time as they are used to name many different species of sp brown rays.

MichaelH owned a very old scobina female. Its was 40 cm. It is the biggest scobina female I have ever seen or heard about.

My scobina male was fully mature at just 16 cm. Thats the sign of a small species.

And regarding the aqualog/ross book I have to say that both are outdated.
 
And anders a 10" ray is young.

A 10" scobina who is wildcaught is not a young ray. ;)

many scobina pretty much stop growing at 10". Also, rays grow alot slower in nature than in a hot tank with all the food they can eat.

A 10" wild scobina could easily be 6-10 years old.
 
It looks great Matt! Out of the 4 xingu I had when they were young one appeared to look very much like a scobina. The suttle differences then was the size of the ray compared to the claspers (big ray, small claspers), the rows of spines, and the size of the eyes. I believe it was a R # in the aualog if I can remember that was very similar to the xingu.
I now own some scobina since then and can pick out the differences better.
 
So a 10" wild caught mature scobina is young? Good job mr... ;)

And henlei isent actually a genus name.... cos david knows better than the biologists! :grinno:

And dont tell me that scobina looks anything like the 3 pics i just posted. -.-


sigh.

polymorphism (pl-môrfzm)
1. The existence of two or more different forms in an adult organism of the same species,
 
Plz, davidW.

I have alredy seen how much you know about the fancy words you hide behind. -.-

The "young:ROFL:" ray you posted a pic of looks pretty much like tika´s.

So dont give me your :bs:
 
Plz, davidW.

I have alredy seen how much you know about the fancy words you hide behind. -.-

The "young:ROFL:" ray you posted a pic of looks pretty much like tika´s.

So dont give me your :bs:

Off your meds again?
next to #2 was a photo of you!

mo·ron (môrn, mr-)
n.
1. A stupid person; a dolt.
2. Psychology A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
[From Greek mron, neuter of mros, stupid, foolish.]
mo·ronic (m-rnk, mô-) adj.
mo·roni·cal·ly adv.
moronism, mo·roni·ty (m-rn-t, mô-) n.
 
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