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Re: A. sp. Malome - a possible answer
Mike & Diane Wise wrote:
>
> 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
Dear Mike:
Yes, that's correct.
And as the TAIWANESE WEBSITE was using photos of Apistogramma pulchra
from same book (The Aquarium 2300 Atlas, 1997 edition), I suspect that
A. sp. Mamole can be found in the same site. Can you or someone in this
list investigate it?
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