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Krj-1168, Is mine a marbled or coral?
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ok - here the thing about how to IDing Atelomycterus Cats - as juvies - it usually pretty hard Id correctly. - especially with Corals & Marbled - since they look very similar in the sub-adult size range - about 12-16".
As Adults it's much easier - Coral Cats are brighter colored with White spots - Marbled Cats have black spots and grayish bands.
As pups - Coral Cat start out with whitespots on a dark gray body, As they start mature the dark gray (almost black) becomes like black spots(right next to the white spots). Eventually as they reach maturity - Coral Cats lose the Dark gray spots completely
Marbled Cats - as pups tend to be a bit lighter - with white spots. But as they maturity the lose their white spots - and keep the black spots with gray bands.
As for your Catshark = I would have to say - Coral Cat also.