Lönnberg's Lyretail, Loennbergs Prachtkärpfling (DE)
March 21st, 2012 — 9:48am
Described from the ‘Kribi’, now known as Kienké, river, southwestern Cameroon and has a wider distribution in the region, occurring in the Lokundje and Nyong drainages.
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March 13th, 2012 — 1:24pm
This species is still very rare in the hobby although it has built up something of a following among enthusiasts of planted 'nano' aquaria and you may see it on sale under the trade names of 'dwarf amber/ember barb'. Its small adult size evolved via a process known as miniaturisation characterised by sexually mature adults with a significantly reduced size of less than 20mm SL. Among bony fishes cyprinids are one of the few groups in which this phenomenon occurs repeated…
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Six-barred Panchax
March 13th, 2012 — 1:20pm
Distributed throughout coastal regions north and westwards from Gabon through Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin and Togo as far as Ghana although some consider it restricted to northwestern Gabon and Equatorial Guinea with the remaining populations representing various subspecies (see ‘Notes’).
Type locality is ‘Gaboon River’, which presumably refe…
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Aphyosemion rectogoense
Many thanks cyprin, the image has now been removed.
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