Extremely rare, bright-yellow catfish caught in the Netherlands

[Slaphppy7]

Absolutely beautiful, IMO...good to hear he released it

Extremely rare, bright-yellow catfish caught in the Netherlands

The banana-colored animal likely has a rare genetic disorder called leucism.

www.livescience.com

 

[FishHobby99]

Stunning! Didn’t know leucistic catfish existed. My 2 axies are pink Lucys.

What a mighty giant! Incredible!

 

[DoubleDutch]

To be honest I think it isn't leucistic but xanthistic (yellow pygments).

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Xanthochromism (also called xanthochroism or xanthism) is a term that may be applied to birds, fish and other animals whose colouration is unusually yellow through an excess of yellow pigment, or possibly a loss of darker pigments that allows yellow pigment to be unusually dominant. It is often…

alienchildren.livejournal.com

Same as our Lemon BN

 

[FishHobby99]

OK, tell that to the guy who wrote the article. His words, not mine.

 

[FishHobby99]

Look at this pic I found in from the yellow catfish. Too adorable!

 

[DoubleDutch]

OK, tell that to the guy who wrote the article. His words, not mine.

Meand to the article not to your words hahaha

 

[DoubleDutch]

The link he had was interesting. Albino animals that were white, pink & yellow. My leucistic (sp?) axies are not albinos, but look similar. Mine have black eyes, the others have colorless ones that look kinda creepy IMO. But both pale pink with darker pink gills.

Left Peppered Albino, right Peppered Xanthic

 

[Avel1896]

Woah ! Bright-yellow, and BIG !!
Thanks for sharing