What Type Of Common Pleco Is This?

[snazy]

What type of common pleco do you think this is, as of L number? Thanks in advance. All I know is that he is going to grow big, but I was trying to figure out the exact type and I can't. He can change colour if that helps.

And that's a video of him from a few weeks back.


http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKzhtM_BGiE

 

[swanseastilo]

Isnt that a bristlenose Looks exactly like mine. Well from the video it does.

 

[xingumike]

Isnt that a bristlenose Looks exactly like mine. Well from the video it does.

Yours isn't a Bristlenose if it looks like that.

OP, this is the commonest of the commons P. pardalis.

L number is defunct as it has been described but if you insist on one it is L21 or L23

 

[snazy]

OP, this is the commonest of the commons P. pardalis.

Ha, ha I knew that much too, but couldn't figure which type. Thanks for the quick reply.
Here are a few more pics:

 

[xingumike]

It could actually be a disjunctivus now I've seen the belly but it matters not really.

I have a theory that these may all actually be hybrids anyway, only the people who farm them will really know.

 

[snazy]

Thanks very much. I think you are spot on.
Are they normally reddish? Or that means he is a male?

 

[snazy]

I found some video on youtube of a P. Pardalis and my pleco's colour and tail shape are quite different. The one in the video is dark with regular light brown spots. My pleco seem to be rather light brown with a unconnected dark spots. Also the tail of the one in the video is triangle shaped. My pleco has two quite prolonged swords on top and bottom of the tail.

Video of uknown P. Pardalis below:

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2djp9izoGw&feature=related

And here is a bad quality video of my plec:

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKwBND2Gw7Y&feature=youtu.be

So maybe he is either P. disjunctivus or P. multiradiatus.

I came across an article that says the following:

Coalesced dark spots on a light body distinguish P. disjunctivus from P. anisits, which has light spots on a dark body and from P. multiradiatus, which has uncoalesced dark spots on a light body
P. disjunctivus most closely resembles P. pardalis but can be distinguished by having dark ventral spots that blend together to form a vermiculate pattern, P. pardalis has discrete spots