Botia Guilinen?

[PurpleStarFish]

Hi everyone.

I recently bought a lovely new fish for my established tropical tank,

He was listed as a : BOTIA GUILINEN at the shop but wherever I search on the net or in the two tropical fish "Encyclopedias" that I have, I cant find that type \breed!

Does anyone know where I can find info about this guy?

He is an orangey brown colour and likes to hide up in little nooks and crannies, (He was hiding in some rocks with 3 or 4 others in the shop )

Any info would be gratefully received

Thanx
and have a good xmas.

Holly

 

[OohFeeshy]

According to Fishbase there's no species called Botia Guilinen, so that's not helpful. Loaches.com has a 'search by body shape' function here which could be a good place to start.

 

[The-Wolf]

According to Fishbase there's no species called Botia Guilinen,

correct but there is a Gobiobotia guilingensis and a Leptobotia guilinensis.
I'm guessing the fish in question is the latter
http/fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary...ame=guilinensis

Fishy, do learn to use fishbase's search properly

 

[OohFeeshy]

Yeah, well, nyer... I'm not very good with loach scientific names, they seem to change all the time to vastly complex things....

 

[Lateral Line]

they seem to change all the time

Maurice Kottelat strikes again! It is largely his work that re-classifies the loach group. Some of it is decidedly dubious I might add. He is a busy chap though and has done vast amounts of very creditable work.

 

[CrashingWaves]

Really once you get past the basic loach species (Clown, Yoyo, Kuhli) thinks start to get more confusing and complex. There's quite a few species that look pretty similar to eachother, and yes...scientific names are changing all the time it seems. But I suppose that's true for all fish species, it's just that loaches aren't as easy to come by as some others.

God Bless,
Joshua