Re: Apisto in Uruguay!

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

Vinny,

This is excellent new indeed! It's amazing how few species are actually known
from the Rio Paraquay system & none from the Rio Uruguay. A. pleurotaenia is the
only described species that does not have a known collecting locality other than
"the La Plata region". Perhaps it is this species.

Mike Wise

V Kutty wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> There was an Apistogramma species discovered about two weeks ago in northern
> Uruguay.  It was collected by my friends and local fish heads Nathan Okawa
> and Stan Sung.  I saw a slide of the fish and it is not A. borelli from what
> I could tell.  It had a very prominent sub orbital stripe and blue spots on
> the flanks (A. commbrae?).  I hope to get Stan's slides scanned some time
> soon.  It was collected in Salto, Uruguay, in the same spot that Nathan and
> I poked around in last year and came up Apisto-less.  This only reinforces
> the fact that a habitat has to be repeatedly explored to be understood.
> This spot is about 32° South of the equator and gets close or below freezing
> every Winter (July).  I'd previously thought that there were no Apistos in
> Uruguay or along Rio Uruguay that far south, even though Rio Parana has some
> Apistos at that latitude.  The species was apparently not very common and
> I'm not sure if they managed to get a pair back to the States.  This wont be
> the last you hear of this cold-hardy species.
>
> Thought you'd like to know.
>
> Vinny Kutty
> Chatsworth, California
>
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