Hemiloricaria eigenmanni?

[francistrus]

Six months ago I bought four little fellows in a local shop as "loricaria sp".
Now I have sexed two of them (a male and a female). The two remaining still unsexed.
The female is ripe. She looks "needed to lay the eggs" and enters in the male´s pipe frecuently, but there´s no breeding by now.
I want to identify them correctly the species (in other forum they told me that they´re Hemiloricaria eigenmanni, I believe that they´re, but I need to be sure).
Here some pictures taken at their arrival.
Hope you can help me.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Doodles]

Did you get them id'd as Hemiloricaria eigenmanni even with the white belly?
I saw thread on pc and wonder if it was confirmed.

 

[francistrus]

That's the question. I'm not a taxonomy expert. What characteristics are the key to the identifiacation?

 

[xingu]

have you looked at the Planet Catfish species page?

From there

'This is a very common species. Easily identified by the combination of barred fins and the dark lines on the ventral sides of the tail.'

 

[francistrus]

Well, as you can see my fish lacks the dark lines of the ventral side of the tail.

 

[xingu]

Then by that defnintion it can't be Eigenmanni I guess.

I had a very similar fish that I never got a correct ID on.

How does H. hasemani compare to your fish? That is what I guessed mine to be.

 

[francistrus]

I've been looking some pictures and H.hasemani is the most similar species.

 

[francistrus]

Thanks for the helpings hands.