Re: A. agassizi colour morphs

[Pete Johnson <petej@tlg.net>]

>got a couple of general questions that I'm sure have been discussed 
>before but I can't remember the answers.  Firstly will males and females of 
>different colour morphs mate with each other?  Secondly are the different 
>colour morphs due to different geographical locations or are they due 
>to breeding?  Finally I think I heard someone say once that wild agassizi 
>produce all the different colour morphs, is this true?

Different color forms of A. agassizi will mate with each other and 
produce viable offspring. I believe this is true even of the Rio Tefe 
aggies, which have very different markings.

The different colors do reflect different geographic areas -- A. agassizi 
has the widest distribution of any Apisto.

Uwe Romer, the source of much of my information about aggies, says that 
wild agassizi will produce all the different colour morphs. I suspect 
that domestic aggies will, too.


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