Pls help to ID this pseudorinelepis

[Mr.XPlecos]

Need some help to ID my pleco. Bought as L95 from the LFS, but doesnt look like one to me, look more like genibarbis or L142?

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/effcomm/IMG_2236.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/effcomm/IMG_2237.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/effcomm/IMG_2239.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/effcomm/IMG_2242.jpg

[Mr.XPlecos]

more pics... hope it helps

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/effcomm/IMG_2241.jpg

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/effcomm/IMG_2243.jpg

[Dimitri]

it's a L152 bro...........................:)

[Mr.XPlecos]

it's a L152 bro...........................:)

thanks. but how to tell the juveniles from tt of L95s apart?

[matubula]

I have a paper by John Armbuster and Michael Hardman on Pseudorinelepis genibarbis, and this page contains excerpts from it.

http://www.auburn.edu/academic/science_math/res_area/loricariid/fish_key/pseudrin/Pseudrin.html

"Color patterns are variable and Pseudorinelepis genibarbis can change color to match substrate. Most specimens preserved in alcohol are brown to charcoal gray with few if any spots (generally restricted to dorsal-fin membranes). In life, Pseudorinelepis may be completely dark brown to black; mottled with tan to dark brown background and black streaks; or light tan with large, sparse spots located at base of lateral plates, on fin membranes, and on abdomen. Armbruster & Page (1997) suggest that breeding males develop orange coloration along cheek margin and dorsal- and caudal-fin spines, but the orange coloration may be restricted to specimens from the Rio Branco."

This suggests to me that P. genibarbis and L152 are probably the same. The only differences between P. genibarbis and L152 are based on colour and patterning, and it seems that P. genibarbis exhibits them already.