Protomyzon pachychilus?

[HaakonH]

I found this picture over at Basil Aquarium (Taiwan)



http://www.u2u.idv.tw/stone/photo/Tetra ... chilus.jpg

I can't find any detailed info on this one, can anyone provide some data?

-Haakon

[palaeodave]

Gorgeous. Looks like these chaps:

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php ... ght=pridii

[Mad Duff]

There is some info here:

http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=16076

and here:

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum/sh ... hp?t=50534

There seems to be a big debate at the moment as to whether or not they are actually Protomyzon.

[palaeodave]

From that link:

"Protomyzon pachychilus, a rare species from Guangxi Province in China. However, there's not much info about them, here's a simple description:

http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/p ... ?news=1277"

[HaakonH]

Yeah, that's what I thought too...which is abit disturbing if they are in fact as rare as reports suggest. But why use a different name for such a unique species? Or are we actually dealing with 2 different species? Doesn't look like we are, but since I can't find much info on P.pachychilus I wasn't sure.

-Haakon