Re: A.nijsseni

[Frauley/Elson <fraulels@minet.ca>]

kathy@thekrib.com wrote:
> 
> > I have a wild njisseni pair now, guarding wrigglers. Everything (head
> > shape, finnage, overall patterning) says njisseni but there's no
> > greenish side blotch on the female. In the past, my captive-bred
> > njisseni females always had that.
> 
> Gary,
> 
> I always get one female nijsseni or two without a side blotch in my
> batches of fry.  Some of the fry end up with two blotches.  Mostly it is
> only on one side, once both.  I think it is a genetic variant.
> 
> Kathy

I noticed among the wild panduro I was looking at that a fair number of
the females lacked the heavy black throat pigmentation entirely. We have
variable green spots on njisseni, and variable throat marks and caudal
patches on panduro. It is interesting. 
It messes with the 'traditional' hobbyist diagnostics. 

I know pointing out all these variations may look eccentric, but this
group does seem to show a lot of them. Time will tell if we have a
'guppy apisto"  (heresy heresy!!) here when it comes to coloration. I'd
love to see someone go into the habitats and catalogue what they see, so
we could know.

I just haven't seen this degree of colour variability among the other
apistos I've gotten to get to look at a lot. Maybe only the fairly
closely related cacatuoides approaches it.

-Gary


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