unknown catfish

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Okay, I got this thing at my local pet store and was told that it was an upside down catfish but it doesn't look like the pictures I found of one. It is also agressive toward my swordtails. It is 2.5 inches long and it is completely black with 3 tiny pinhead sized white dots along the sides. It looks like a catfish with the whiskers and body type. I looked through the photos on many sites and I can't find a match. I'll try to get a pic on after dinner. I was wondering if it was a black catfish (trachycorystes trachycorystes)? Does anyone know anything about these?
 

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Elite Fish
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If he has the general body shape of an upside down catfish, is he some type of synodontis? (I think that's spelled right). You could maybe google image search "synodontis" and see if you get anything like him.

Does he have really branched, feathery whiskers?