are amazing! The A. mendezi "Sao Gibrael" is worth an often visit. Thanks Julio and Ingo. >Hi Mike, Scot, > >Thank you for your quick replies. I heard that Rio Xie is >one of the upper stream of Rio Negro. Because I do not have >any detailed maps or reference books aound there, I cannot >conclude whether "Rio Xie" and "Rio Xingu" is identical or not. >However, since I have seen the fishes "A. elizabethae (Rio Xie)" >and "A. elizabethae (Rio Xingu)" in a same shop, I guess "Rio >Xie" and "Rio Xingu" is not identical. > >Yamazaki Book (in Japan, it often called "pieces" book) is one >of the most popular references in Japan. In that book, he says >that >"A. minkeny (spelling?) is the pertensis-like fish with anal spot・瘢雹・瘢雹・瘢雹" >but it does not tell me more about this fish. So A. sp. Rio Xie might >be closely allied to A. minkeny. Anyway A. minkeny is also not so >popular in Japan. > >Danny, Japan. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. >For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, >email apisto-request@listbox.com. >Search http://altavista.digital.com for "Apistogramma Mailing List Archives"! Steven J. Waldron http://WWW.ANURA.ORG "Natural History, Captive Husbandry, Conservation and Biophilia of Tropical Frogs" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the apistogramma mailing list, apisto@listbox.com. For instructions on how to subscribe or unsubscribe or get help, email apisto-request@listbox.com. Search http://altavista.digital.com for "Apistogramma Mailing List Archives"!