A. sp. Malome - a possible answer

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

Thanks to Marco Lacerda's diligent detective work with Japanese books
and magazines, we now think we know what A. sp. Malome actually is -
sort of.

In the book, The Aquarium 2300 Atlas, by Minoru Matuzaka, published by
Fair Wind Co. Ltd, there is a species called  A. sp. "MAMORE BLUE"
(AP513). Since the book is written in Japanese script, and there is no
"r" in the Japanese language, it is called "ma mo LAY" in Japan.
Somewhere between Japan and Europe some letters in the name got
transposed from (in Latin characters) Mamole to Malome.

This is not the blue form of the A. trifasciata-like A. sp. Mamoré that
Staeck introduced to the hobby. According to Marco, "They used this name
for a fish related to A. sp. Lagoa Abuna (=A. sp. "ABUNA" AP502 of this
book) which I have collected in the same lake (beside the Rio Pacaas
Novos, Rio Mamore-drainage) along with A. staecki and A. sp. Mamore
(Staeck's one!!!)."  We are both fairly  certain that this is the same
fish being sold as A. sp. Malome.

Check Aqualog SAII, page 63,  for a photo of A. sp. Lagua (SIC) Abuna.
There is also a picture of one in Bleher, Heiko, 1993, Abunã,
Aqua-Geõgraphia 6(4): 6-19 listed as A. sp. nov (page 17). Those of you
who have A. sp. Malome check to see if A. sp. Lagoa Abuna resembles your
fish and let us know.

Mike Wise




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