Re: Fish ID

[Randy Carey <carey@spacestar.net>]

I recognized the similarity with runpununi, too.  Note the long ventrals 
and the placement of color on them and on the upper dorsal.  Hauntingly 
similar. But I dismissed rupununi due to a single feature -- a subtle but 
disqualifying feature.  Look at the vertical row of spots on the 
caudal.  A. rupununi has about a dozen rows; yours and steindachneri have 
just over half that.  Also, those rows run through all the caudal rays, on 
yours and on steindachneri they do not extend to the upper and lower rays.

Unless yours is a rather young specimen, its dorsal defies it being 
macmasteri (leading rays, length of trailer).

--Randy



At 10:37 AM 4/27/2002, you wrote:
> Well, I want to thank everyone who has looked at the photos and offered an
> opinion. I went through Romer's key last night(twice) and it presented the
> fish as either A. steindachneri or A. macmasteri. However, I also went through
> every photo and drawing, and from I can see, it is VERY similar to the fish
> on page 737, A. rupununi. So, is this a possible match? The tail is slightly
> lyrate, with trailers.


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