New Pangios ID please

[starsplitter7]

Found these pretty 4" Pangios today. Yellow and brown. Broken stripes and spots. Any idea what they are? Are they common Kuhlies or something interesting? I think they are very pretty. Nice coloration.

Thanks! Tanja

[Marcos Mataratzis]

Hi Tanja,

Looks like Pangio kuhlli to me.

[Thomas]

Hi Tanja,

Hard to say without a shot from side. And often hard to say with a pic from side Another hint were P. myersi.

The below text is from:

Kottelat & Lim: A review of the eel-loaches of the genus pangio (teleostei: cobitidae) from the Malay Peninsula with descriptions of six new species - RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 1993 41(2)

Pangio myersi (Harry, 1949) is easily distinguished by its colour pattern consisting of ca. 8-11 broad, quadrangular and very regular black bars on an orange background (e. g., Smith, 1945, p. 300, fig. 62; aquarium specimen in Sterba, 1987: 216), contrasting very much with the pattern exhibited by P. kuhlii. The caudal fin often is entirely black or has, beside the large basal black blotches, a submarginal vertical bar which is absent in P. kuhlii (Fig. 15). Also, P. myersi, definitely known only from southeastern Thailand, apparently reaches a much larger size than P. kuhlii (67.2 mm SL, for wild caught specimens; aquarium specimens of P. myersi reach up to 100 mm SL; the largest P. kuhlii we have ever seen is a wild caught female, 63;0 mm SL, with distended belly (ZRC 17703-17728)).

Possibly this may helps you.

Bye

Thomas

[starsplitter7]

Whatever they are, I love them. Very pretty.

Thank you both for your help.