Nandopsis/Parachromis mento?

[artemis1]

It doesn't look like a sketch, it looks like a actual dead fish.

really? looks like it's a sketch to me. maybe time i get a new computer? lol

 

[SMS]

really? looks like it's a sketch to me. maybe time i get a new computer? lol

Its not a sketch

 

[balton777]

Parachromis motaguense is a valid cichlid.
There is a hybrid of managuense and festae, I cant think of what they call it-other than a hybrid

Manaconda I believe.

 

[davidefc]

Try asking over at The Cichlid Room Companion.

You'll get a much better response than here, guaranteed. Only place I go for taxonomic questions.

X2

Nandopsis mento (Heros mento) is considered to be a synonym of exCichlasoma istlanum.

When CA are scared and out of the water, for some time, they often will turn black/brown. This fish is definately out of the water, and may not even be alive(?). So coloration and markings are of no help in identifying what it really is. It does have the right body shape for an istlanum. And the large teeth ----- if the fish is making it's living as a piscivore they might develope larger then what is usually seen in captivity.

X2 you can find this info on the Cichlid Room Companion,
http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery.php?genus=exCichlasoma

Click Istlanum, the scroll down to Synonyms, you will find:

Heros mento Vaillant & Pellegrin, 1902, with type locality at Río Negro, southern Mexico. Determiner: Conkel, 1993.
Cichlasoma (Parapetenia) leonhard-schultzei Ahl, 1935, with type locality at Tlapa, Guerrero, Mexico. Determiner: Reis, R. E., S. O. Kull&er & C. J. Ferraris, Jr., 2003 .
Cichlasoma istlana fusca de Buen , 1946, with type locality at Río Huámito, La Huacana, Mexico. Determiner: Kull&er S. O., 2003.

 

[balton777]

-http://www.cichlidae.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5413

 

[balton777]

X2



X2 you can find this info on the Cichlid Room Companion,
http://www.cichlidae.com/gallery.php?genus=exCichlasoma

Click Istlanum, the scroll down to Synonyms, you will find:

Heros mento Vaillant & Pellegrin, 1902, with type locality at Río Negro, southern Mexico. Determiner: Conkel, 1993.
Cichlasoma (Parapetenia) leonhard-schultzei Ahl, 1935, with type locality at Tlapa, Guerrero, Mexico. Determiner: Reis, R. E., S. O. Kull&er & C. J. Ferraris, Jr., 2003 .
Cichlasoma istlana fusca de Buen , 1946, with type locality at Río Huámito, La Huacana, Mexico. Determiner: Kull&er S. O., 2003.

So it IS an Istlanum? Well I guess that settles that.

It sure doesn't look like it though.

 

[SMS]

Well thanks everyone, goodnight.