Re: Red Apistos -Reply

[swaldron@slip.net (Steven J. Waldron)]

>>
>> Kathy's second point is interesting. I always considered the male rotpunkt
>> a bit more on the cacatuoides side of the spectrum than macmasteri. The
>> females show strong affinities to the macmasteri group. Great fish though,
>> adaptable to hard/alkaline and very productive.
>
>Hmmm, confusing.  The male "rotpunkt" doesn't have extended
>rays in the dorsal or a lyreate caudal fin like a
>cacatuoides.

Neither does A. nijsseni, A. panduro, you can see a transistion though. But
I don't know much about the biogeography enough to say.
- - Steve

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