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What are these?

Post by lilacamy931 »

Saw these today - they reminded me of pea puffs but had the distinctive yellow orange lines on their bellies. All the shop could tell me was their name began with the letter S....

They had a fair few puffs in but bar the standard pea puffs and these guys the rest were sadly poorly.

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Re: What are these?

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I can only see your 1st image but looks like a DP to me.
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Re: What are these?

Post by lilacamy931 »

On that linkie if scroll there are lots of images (sorry I am so rubbish at uploading).

They are similar to pea puffs but less vivid mottle markings and bright orange stripes on their bellies which hadn't seen before?
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Honestly I would guess that they are Carinotetraodon Imitator, a species discovered in the 1990's that is very similar to the common dwarf puffer (C. Travancoricus)
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Re: What are these?

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Your uploads are fine, just don't ust the IMG brackets when posting a complete link, like I did below:
pufferjw wrote: Fri Jan 04, 2019 6:59 pm Honestly I would guess that they are Carinotetraodon Imitator, a species discovered in the 1990's that is very similar to the common dwarf puffer (C. Travancoricus)
How can you tell the difference between these two then?
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Re: What are these?

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http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2013/07/19 ... tator.html

They have more orange on their bellies and more faded dots.
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