Fwd: Re: A. nijsenni

["Ed Pon" <edpon@hotmail.com>]

Bob wrote:
>
>If we could solve that, it would be great.  If those fortunate few of 
us who
>do collect were to establish a system, perhaps starting with the 
already
>common use of terms like "Rio Mamore", and "Rio Tefe", and building on 
that,
>It would be great, even if it only was maintained among the growing 
network ok
>Apistophiles who are online and in groups like the ACA and ASG.  Today 
I
>learned that there are color morphs of brichardi.  It would be useful 
to know
>the locations of the various populations, just as it would the 
multitudinous
>aggies, borelliis, and others.
>
>Perhaps we could establish a map of the Apisto range, and post the 
identified
>known locations of the various species and sub-strains on it?  This 
would be
>cool, eh?
>
>Bob
>
Bob--You're right.  My point about trying to get groups at one time can 
be somewhat justified by what you mentioned about learning about 
different color morphs of Brichardi.  There's at least a half dozen 
different species of Lake Tanganyikan fish which look very much like 
Brichardi.  Many of them were probably imported as Brichardi at one 
time.  This knowledge is fairly recent.  We will undoubtedly learn to 
make these distinctions with apistos as in the Trifasciata types and the 
different MacMasteri types.

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