Please help identify!

[Aim321]

I acquired this pleco when I got a 55 gal tank for free... the guy told us its rare and expensive but not what it was... we have determined it's not a common pleco and the closest we've come to finding it's exact pattern and color and find etc is an L347... help! We've been searching for hours!

 

[thefredpit]

my thought is it might be a ranger pleco

https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=860

 

[AquaAlex1993]

my thought is it might be a ranger pleco

https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=860

Ditto! It does look like a ranger pleco

 

[thefredpit]

the funny thing is I always keep a tab open to planetcatfish.com and it just happened to be open to the imperial ranger pleco so the id was easy

 

[Warborg]

It's a Hypostomus plecostomus the true common pleco.

https://www.planetcatfish.com/common/species.php?species_id=580

An Imperial Ranger pleco is a Pterygoplichthys punctatus. Which has more then 7-8 rays in it's dorsal fin.

A Pterygoplichthys pardalis is the new common pleco.