worse is that I don’t know where it was collected, for riverine people everything is fish, they put the same name on everyone and most shopkeepers have no interest in knowing what animal really is
Right. This situation translates to exporters and their fish lists and our importers and their fish lists often contain fish with wrong IDs but less so than perhaps in Brazil.
This makes our hobby more interesting I believe though and makes us learn things which otherwise we might have ignored