Re: Apistogrammoides pucallpaensis

["Scott Olson" <olson7@hotmail.com>]

It seems to me that pucallpaensis and Borelli may be quite closely related.  
There are a number of behavioral and morphological similarities, at least to 
my amateur eye.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Scott


>From: Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>
>Reply-To: apisto@listbox.com
>To: apisto@listbox.com
>Subject: Re: Apistogrammoides pucallpaensis
>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 08:07:05 -0700
>
>Steve,
>
>In Dr. Kullander's 1998 article "A phylogeny and classification of the 
>South
>American Cichlidae (Teleostei: Perciformes)" in Malabarba, L. et. al. 
>(eds.)
>Phylogeny and classification of Neotropical fishes, Porto Alegre, Brazil,
>p.461-498. Kullander wrote that the genera Apistogrammoides and Taeniacara 
>are
>sufficiently similar to Apistogramma that they could be considered part of 
>this
>genus. I don't know if this is sufficient to actually eradicate the 2 
>genera. On
>my apisto list I have them listed as Apistogramma (Apistogrammoides)
>pucallpaensis & Apistogramma (Taeniacara) candidi only for the sake of
>completeness.
>
>Mike Wise
>
>Steve Lasky wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I was wondering if anyone knows the current scientific status of
> > Apistogrammoides pucallpaensis?  I thought I remember hearing it was
> > moved to Apistogramma, but now I can't find the reference.  Thanks for
> > any help.
> > Steve
> >
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