What do you reckon this little guy is..i.d please

[bettapits]

yes a bifasciatum...

 

[fourty2]

cheers guys,seems like its swinging over to vieja bifasciatus,and i can see why there has been other answers,when i started to look at different Viejas on the net,it seems either some viejas are being miss identified or some viejas are quite alike each other,still dont know what thats all about....
Anyway, thank you all for helping me out

 

[gekkecichla]

all the vieja looka bit a like but if you ask me id say synspilum,

 

[aquablue]

i was going to say Hartwegi but so many have said Bifi so maybe thats what it is. It still looks kind of like my Hartwegi.

 

[fishluvr12]

all the vieja looka bit a like but if you ask me id say synspilum,

I agree

 

[ShadowStryder]

Bifa

 

[zerelli]

Paratheraps synspilus (Hubbs, 1935) is the correct name and it looks like a correctly labeled young one to me. All of the fish of this complex resemble one another until they get their full adult color. Yours looks like sysnpilus to me, I have a tank of bifas that size and they do not look like the full colored adult in the pic by Rapps. The bifas I have show a lot more black at the 5 inch size than what yours does.

 

[zerelli]

It has one stripe so I am not sure why anyone thinks it would be a Paratheraps bifasciatus (Steindachner, 1864)?

 

[zerelli]

I have been raising these:
Paratheraps melanurus (Günther, 1862)
Paratheraps bifasciatus (Steindachner, 1864)
Paratheraps synspilus (Hubbs, 1935)
Vieja heterospila (Hubbs, 1936)

and I am curious as to why the heterospila did not get reclassified with the others to Paratheraps. They are extremely hard to tell fromt he small bifas. Also, if anyone reading this is from GCCA I got what I think are synspilus at the ACA in Chicago and I am wondering if they might be Paratheraps fenestratus (Günther, 1860). The member I got them from was named Scott or Steve I think and he had robertsoni as well, because I got one mixed in with my synspilus/fenestrada. Soon they will have adult colors and I will know which one it is, but I am curious as I cannot remember which one I got.

 

[fishguts]

i think its a veja syn crossed with another veja