Polypterus endlicheri photo thread

[Polyaddict86]

Some of you have seen these photos, but probably not ceryain on exact specie. This is a confirmed Congicus photo from Royal Museum Central African. They're pretty plump.

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Damn look at the size on those

 

[jaws7777]

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See and this is what I think us on the US side of things needs to adopt. Usually if you ask people what a WC Hybrid is called, they'll call it a Dabola, when the term sp. Dabola only specifies where it is caught. Where as Lapen describes what the species is alleged to be. So you can have a WC Lapen caught in Dabola, or somewhere else. However you begin to get confusion when you have the CB lapxend which is supposedly the same fish, but different quality.

I really wish we could get a clear picture on the different species/locations

So sp. Dabola and lapen are probably the same thing ?

You ever notice a difference on the faranah and dabola endlis ?

Dabola and tinkinso are the same fish im thinking

 

[Polyaddict86]

But what i thought that tinkinso and dabola are the same ist just a name for them, farannah and guinea are the same too right? Its just the name are differnt but same species?

 

[Polyaddict86]

Albino endlicheri

 

[jaws7777]

Albino endlicheri

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Damn that is one ugly poly

 

[DMD123]

Dabble and tinkinso are the same fish im thinking

Toyin had them listed as Dabola Endli (Tinkisso river) when we bought ours from him.

 

[ShanerBock888]

Albino endlicheri

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man what is up with his face! looks like one of the goombas from the Super Mario Brothers movie

 

[DMD123]

Polyaddict86 , NEVER post pics of that thing again! lol

 

[Polyaddict86]

Polyaddict86 , NEVER post pics of that thing again! lol

Lolz, just saw it and i never seen an albino endli.

 

[Dr.B]

I really wish we could get a clear picture on the different species/locations

So sp. Dabola and lapen are probably the same thing ?

You ever notice a difference on the faranah and dabola endlis ?

Dabola and tinkinso are the same fish im thinking

So what most people think over here is that sp. Dabola means a hybrid when in actuality it just means an undescribed fish labeled by the area it was caught. Where as Lapen distinguishes a specific fish that can be caught in any area. So the undescribed fish caught in dabola could very well be a Lapen, but since we don't know it remains undescribed, hence an absence of anything before "sp. Dabola"