Siamese Tigerfish or Datnoid??

[Fish_are_fishfood]

Is there a difference between a datnoid and a siamese tigerfish??? I have a fish book and it doesnt have dat's in it, but it does have the tigerfish, and they look exactly the same to pics on this site, except for instead of brown with black srtipes, they are yellow with black stripes. Is datnoid a completey different species, or is it just a short cut to typing siamese tigerfish?

 

[Vince]

Siamese tigerfish is the "common" name of the Datniodes Pulcher (widebar dat).

 

[syed]

COIUS PULCHER ? OR DATNOIDE PULCHER?

 

[syed]

ANYBODY OWN TIGARFISH I NEED HELP

 

[syed]

COIUS,COIUS,COIUS

 

[dacox]

Are you asking which is the correct scientific name or trying to get 5 posts so you can see pics??

 

[DiXoN]

it is datnioide the coius name has been removed from dats it was short lived.
yes siamese tiger are d pulcher

 

[Jesse]

In the "old days," the term "Siamese tigerfish" was generically used to refer to any of the two commonly available species, Datnioides microlepis or Datnioides quadrifasciatus. A third species, D. campbelli, was described but wasn't available in the hobby until very recently. Two additional species, Datnoides undecimradiatus and D. pulcher, were described in 1994 and 1998, respectively. Nowadays, there are five recognized species of Datnioides with differing native ranges, so the term "Siamese tiger" only correctly refers to one species, Datnioides pulcher.

 

[Steve_89]

Siamese tiger or ST refers to Datnioides pulcher.

 

[Jesse]

Siamese tiger or ST refers to Datnioides pulcher.

I thought you Australians called datnoids "bumblebee barramundi cod" or something similar.