Synspilus or Synspilum ?

[00rollins]

It's Paratheraps melanurus (the "gender" of the Genus and species has to match).

Here is the paper that proposed that synspilus is a junior synonym of melanurus:

McMahan, Caleb D.. 2011. "Paraneetroplus synspilus is a junior synonym of Paraneetroplus melanurus (Teleostei: Cichlidae)". Zootaxa. (n. 2833), pp. 1-14 (crc03297) (abstract)


" The genus Paraneetroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae) currently consists of 11 species that naturally occur from southern Mexico south to Panama. Paraneetroplus melanurus (Günther 1862) is found in the Lago de Petén system of Guatemala, and P. synspilus (Hubbs 1935) in the Río Grijalva-Usumacinta system, and other systems in Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. Reported morphological differences between the two nominal species in the literature are vague but center around characteristics of a dark band that begins at the caudal fin and tapers anteriorly near mid-body. This band is reported as straight (horizontal) in P. melanurus but ventrally sloped in P. synspilus. Some authors have previously suggested that these two forms are not distinct. The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic morphological comparison of P. melanurus and P. synspilus to further investigate their validity. We examined meristic, morphometric, and geometric morphometric characters and failed to recover diagnostic differences between these two forms. The characters proposed to separate them do not allow for their differentiation, and we conclude that P. synspilus is a junior synonym of P. melanurus. A re-description of P. melanurus is provided on the basis of existing type material and additional material recently collected "


Thanks Cichlid Room Companion!

Matt

This is the fact of it but breeders will continue to distinguish the two by the popular hobby names considering the various coloration differances and the history of the names in the hobby. I have belize syn and lago peten melan, to the hobbiest and novice based on appearence these fish are different although in fact they are the same......for the sake of the hobby i would consider mult factors not only diferentiating the two but even individually like location of collection, and closeness f1, f2, f3, to original wild f0 pparents....basically all syn "melanurus" are not simular in appearance and info like "freshwater creek" belize syn vs just melanurus can help a hobbiest know what there buying.

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[FishFreak95]

It really doesn't matter unless youre breeding locality animals IMO. I doubt the use of synspila will end soon.

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[Stratoquarius]

It's like if they said that Dovii were being changed to something different. nobody would ever accept the new name, and even if it was the official latin name of the fish the common name would shift from "wolf cichlid" to "dovii"

 

[Aquamojo]

US and UM are both singular.

To psari - the fish
ta psaria - the fishes

H Gata - the cat
Oi gates - the cats

O andras - the man
Oi Andres - the men

Nope. The suffix "us" is singular. Generally fish are named after one person...requiring the "us". As an example, Hogaboomorum were named after two brothers, Hogaboom. So you would never (correctly) refer to it as Hogaboomorus. You would use the "us" suffix.

 

[Stratoquarius]

Nope. The suffix "us" is singular. Generally fish are named after one person...requiring the "us". As an example, Hogaboomorum were named after two brothers, Hogaboom. So you would never (correctly) refer to it as Hogaboomorus. You would use the "us" suffix.

Yeah thats my bad Aqua I got confused with Latin and Greek.

so what is the plural of Hogaboomorum? Hogaboomorus?

 

[Aquamojo]

Yeah thats my bad Aqua I got confused with Latin and Greek.

so what is the plural of Hogaboomorum? Hogaboomorus?

Hogaboomorum is the correct name of the fish. You could either say I have a hogaboomorum...or I have two or more hogaboomorum.

 

[dogofwar]

Probably simplest (and most correct) is to call the fish P. melanurus with a location name (if known)...

Matt

This is the fact of it but breeders will continue to distinguish the two by the popular hobby names considering the various coloration differances and the history of the names in the hobby. I have belize syn and lago peten melan, to the hobbiest and novice based on appearence these fish are different although in fact they are the same......for the sake of the hobby i would consider mult factors not only diferentiating the two but even individually like location of collection, and closeness f1, f2, f3, to original wild f0 pparents....basically all syn "melanurus" are not simular in appearance and info like "freshwater creek" belize syn vs just melanurus can help a hobbiest know what there buying.

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