I noticed this, on a fish I posted a picture of today ( it's not a new picture, & it's been posted previously... funny I never noticed it before )
this is supposed to be a “Hypoptopoma thoracatum”
but I ordered 3 originally, and this one is different enough I suspect it's a different species...
If you look, the bristle teeth, are mounted on the skull, ( hard lip, in front of the actual sucker mouth ), rather than within it's mouth on other plecos, as such, that I've seen their mouths...
as opposed to this style of mouth...
maybe it's just that the 1st one has a moveable upper lip, where the lip is actually incorporated into the skull, and not moveable...
another....
this is supposed to be a “Hypoptopoma thoracatum”
but I ordered 3 originally, and this one is different enough I suspect it's a different species...
If you look, the bristle teeth, are mounted on the skull, ( hard lip, in front of the actual sucker mouth ), rather than within it's mouth on other plecos, as such, that I've seen their mouths...
as opposed to this style of mouth...
maybe it's just that the 1st one has a moveable upper lip, where the lip is actually incorporated into the skull, and not moveable...
another....
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