Re: New spiecies???

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>]

Jan,

I pulled your picture of the apisto off Doug Brown's page.  Based on what I could
see of the fish and the location from which it was collected, it appears to be a
specimen of Apistogramma ortmanni.  Annai (correct spelling) is a town along the
middle reaches of the Rupununi River in Guyana.  The only apistos from this part
of Guyana are A. ortmanni, A. rupununi (= Zweifleck Apistogramma), and some old
reports of A. steindachneri (probably A. rupununi).

Apistogramma sp. Mamoré or Rio Mamoré is a trifasciata-like fish originally
imported by Mimbon-Aquarium of Köln (Cologne to us English speakers) in 1995. It
was collected in the lower Rio Mamoré drainage, along the border between Brazil
and Bolivia.  Marco Lacerda (Aqua-Rio, Rio de Janeiro) collected it in the Rio
Pacaas-Novos, a tributary of the Mamoré along with A. staecki.  The fish was
first
introduced to the aquarium hobby by Dr. Wolfgang Staeck, who did not give it a
common name.  See:  Staeck, W. 1996. Neu importiert: Apistogramma aus dem
Mamoré.  D.A.T.Z. 49(9): 548-549. (I did an English translation of this article.)

I keep an apisto list for the Apistogramma Study Group.  It presently has 53
described and 77 undescribed Apistogramma species in it - not including invalid
scientific names.  I have 5 or 6 more to add, but don't have sufficient data
(only names and collecting localities) to add them to it now.  I have a friend in
the Netherlands with whom I correspond.  He has a copy of this list.  I will send
his name, address, and telephone number to you on a personal e-mail.  I believe
he can help you with your list.

Hope this is of some help.

best wishes
Mike Wise
Technical Editor
Apistogramma Study Group

Jan Busser wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is my first mail to the mailing list. Excuse my poor English
> (sometimes) but I'm from Holland so....
> Okay, here's my question.
> Recently I recieved an email from somone who visited Guyana and brought back
> some Apisto's. He sended me an email with an attachment; a picture from that
> (beautifull) male apisto.
> The species was found in Anai. He brought back some animals and asked me if
> I knew which species it was.
> Allthough I'm breeding and keeping Apisto's for over 17 years, I really
> don't know which species it is.
> Now a little problem: I have a full color JPG picture of the species but
> this mailing list recommands no attachments. I have been thinking how I can
> show you the picture otherwise and I have found a way.
> I will place the picture in a newsgroup:
> Rec.aquaria.freshwater.cichlids With the header: Which Apisto is this.
> The hobbyists which are able to view this binary: Please look and try to
> help me.
> Why all this trouble, you may ask?
> First: Next week I will obtain a copple of these animals.
> Second (and much more important) I am developing a registration-system in
> Holland with a friend of mine (not only Apisto's but every aquariumfish! A
> hell of a job!)
> We are trying to give every wild-cought and F1-fish a code which indicates
> the place of habbitat and the date of first import in Holland. Besides thad
> I am the chairman of the "Breeding commission" in Holland which coordinates
> the breeding of aquariumfish in holland, this also calls for a very good
> administration.
> If this apisto is a new species, okay: than it will be Apistogramma species
> Anai'97 for the time being but if the fish is already determanated I realy
> like to know.
>
> Second short question....
> In holland there's a new species (kind of simmulair to A.trifasciatum) which
> is called "Apistogramma mamorae"
> No book, no Apisto-breeder and nothing on the internet gives someting about
> this species and I think that it's an made-up name, but if not: I realy like
> to know more about this animal.
>
> Thanks for helping me out.
>
> Jan Busser, Holland.
>
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