Re: Ang: A. kleei

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@fgn.net>]

Pär,

You may be correct. Meinken writes in the original description (translated from
German):

"... A stripe, consisting of one or two rows of wine red patches runs from the
edge of the eye along the top of the back to the upper end of the caudal
peduncle.  Dorsal [fin] deep black at the base. Above there is a beautiful
gold-yellow or ochre-yellow horizontal stripe that begins at the second dorsal
spine, passes through the entire spiny dorsal, and fills out the base of the
soft dorsal. In the outer part of the fin, the membrane between the spines is a
beautiful wine red, the protruding part of the longest spines is again
ochre-yellow and the elongated part of the soft fin a bright wine red,  and the
first 3 spines deep black. The anal [fin] is ochre-yellow, a few black spots
may or may not be evident, and towards the outside the fin is boldly striped
with wine red in the direction of the rays. On the end of the middle rays there
are 3 or 4 clearly marked, wine red, vertical bars, typical of the species, and
because of this I suggest that this new species should be given the aquarium
name "Querbinden/Vertical-banded Apistogramma" or Vertical-banded Dwarf
Cichlid. Ventrals [fins] ochre-yellow, and the elongated rays wine red."

par.jansson@carlbro.se wrote:

> So, may A. kleei be the red form A. bitaeniata?
> Check this japanese page out for a pic:
> http://www.rva.ne.jp/gallery/kleei.html
>
> /Pär Jansson
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