What Species of Catfish Is This?

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I baught a pair of Catfish earlier today. I thought they were Plecos, I believe they are a species of Catfish. At about 2 inches in length, they are with brown body pattern, not sure if they have any other colours because after I released them in the tank for a better look they went into the gravels in a flash.:irked:

Now all I see is their wiskers sticking out of the gravels. Any idea? They have a slender body kind of like a Red Tail Cat or a Bumble Bee Cat...you know, these types of body shape. Any idea?
 
Might be a banjo cat. I'm not sure how common the name is but I've always seen them listed as that.
 
Something like this? This is Amblydoras hancockii but there are other members of the family Doradidae that looks pretty similer.
Amblydoras_hancockii.jpg
 
Thanks a lot guys, mine are still buried in the gravels but I believe it's a Hancockii. I believe it looks like the specimen in the picture below:

a_hancockii.jpg
 
thats a banjo
 
It's a Amblydoras Hancockii. I've been looking for some of these cats. I haven't seen them around in a long time. Great fish. Definitely not a Banjo Catfish.
 
Ok that's not what mine is I think. I just made one of them come out of the gravels, its colours are just like the Hancockii in the picture above except that the stripes are not the same. And It does not have the spiked dorsal fin. It is like a Red Tail Cat. Slender, big head...just pretty about 2 inches or a little over actually. I'll continue to check online...probably the same species just one with a different pattern.
 
From your description, I assumed you were thinking of an astroblepid, or even a chiloglanis, and was all excited. Damn.

Nice pickup anyways. As with ben, I've found these, and well, let's face it---all other exotic doradids to be quite rare in centra/socal.
 
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