tsn name over used?

[Mystus Redtail]

Fasciatum looks more like a tiger, when you look at true tiger, none have stripes like a tigrinus, they are patterned. Tig's look more like zebras than tigers. If you ask everyone on this website, more would say TSN= Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum, not Merodontotus Tigrinus or Brachyplatystoma juruense.

I have to agree with I<3fish. If you ask anyone in the fish hobby what a TSN is they are going to point to a P. fasciatum. Brachyplatystoma tigrinum ive always seen as tig, tigrinus, zebra shovelnose, but never tsn. and B. jurenese ive seen as jurenese catfish, jur, or even i saw it once as flash zebra shovelnose.

TSN is of course short for "tiger-shovel-nose" but the real question is which species the common name "Tiger Shovelnose" refers to. I have always seen it refer to Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum, but I can imagine people using it for Merodontotus Tigrinus. That is the problem with common names...

I have to agree with all of these posts. It wasn't that long ago that I heard TSN referred to a Tigrinus, and I was very confused. That was the first time I had ever seen it. I have ALWAYS heard Tiger Shovel Nose referring to Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum.

 

[basslover34]

... This post is Funny... and I don't think I need to repeat anything thats already been said here...

I have to agree with I<3fish. If you ask anyone in the fish hobby what a TSN is they are going to point to a P. fasciatum. Brachyplatystoma tigrinum ive always seen as tig, tigrinus, zebra shovelnose, but never tsn. and B. jurenese ive seen as jurenese catfish, jur, or even i saw it once as flash zebra shovelnose.

Well said Fishlover88

 

[AddictedToMbus]

Fasciatum looks more like a tiger, when you look at true tiger, none have stripes like a tigrinus, they are patterned. Tig's look more like zebras than tigers. If you ask everyone on this website, more would say TSN= Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum, not Merodontotus Tigrinus or Brachyplatystoma juruense.

if it was a zebra they would of named um zebrinis

 

[basslover34]

if it was a zebra they would of named um zebrinis

Thats a stretch LOL ...

 

[AddictedToMbus]

^^hahaha thanks for the input guys

 

[AddictedToMbus]

well that 1 guy said ask everyone on that website so ill go to see.
if someone else refers to something else. he's a liar

 

[basslover34]

a liar... just means that you have found someone else that just doesn't know any better... i'm sure I can find someone on the site that things that a Guppy is a Beta it doesn't mean anything other than their own personal knowledge doesn't include that as of yet...

 

[I<3fish]

if it was a zebra they would of named um zebrinis

Umm... The common name for them IS zebra... I don't know how this would appear more like a tiger than a zebra.

And just to refresh to you what a tiger looks like.

And a zebra.

I'm pretty sure the pattern looks MUCH more similar to Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum.

Now, I could carry on and make you look more clueless, but hopefully now your eyes can discern one woodland critter from another.

 

[Mystus Redtail]

well that 1 guy said ask everyone on that website so ill go to see.
if someone else refers to something else. he's a liar

If you ask everyone on this website, more would say TSN= Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum, not Merodontotus Tigrinus or Brachyplatystoma juruense.

He said if you asked everyone more people would say P. Fasciatum, he didn't say everyone would. A dissenting vote wouldn't make him a liar, in fact I would agree that more people would vote the way he suggested.

 

[I<3fish]

He said if you asked everyone more people would say P. Fasciatum, he didn't say everyone would. A dissenting vote wouldn't make him a liar, in fact I would agree that more people would vote the way he suggested.

Yup, although some people don't get it still...