Suttonia sp.

[Pavaphon]

The fish was imported from Indonesia with no name tack on it. I just got it recently and I think it is Suttonia suttoni, not lineatus. Anyone having any idea of what it could be?

This one is quiet hard to kept. I put him in a seperated tank. Now he seem not to have much interest on food offered. I'm feeding him with live small freshwater shrimp and brine shrimp. At least he ate some!

 

[Len]

Very nice fish! We call them pogfish around here Your guess is as good as mine for the species; I've never seen a Suttonia suttoni, but I agree it's not a S.lineatus.

 

[Hiroyuki Tanaka]

Hi,

It seems to me lineatus. See attachment fom the recent Indo-Pacific Fishes.

 

[Len]

Doesn't it most resemble the bottom-right photo, which is S.suttoni?

 

[Pavaphon]

Thanks Hiroyuki for the pics.

Any physical difference between this two species?
I still think that it was S. suttoni, due to the slope of the head shape.

 

[Hiroyuki Tanaka]

I once sent the picture to Dr. Randall that was identical to yours, and he replied as shown below.

Hiroyuki:

I am not positive it is Suttonia lineata, as I suspect it may be hard to distinguish by color from suttonia. If you have Indo-Pacific Fishes number 26 by Randall and Baldwin, you will see C. suttonia is known only from the W Indian Ocean, but perhaps it extends to the Andaman Sea and no one has collected it. There are modal meristic differences (see Tables l-3), but one might need more than one specimen to be sure of the species.

Aloha, Jack