Ballades de Mr Tom C. (report, news, etc...)

-Apistogramma cf. cacatuoides (Río Acre), an unusual form. (October-2014)

From my trip to the Amazon in 2014, I brought back this form of A. cf. cacatuoides (?) from the Río Acre, with some unusual colors and markings:



For more photos:
http://apisto.sites.no/fish.aspx?FishIndexID=2547&gruppeId=1

Source: Apisto-sites

-Apistogramma sp. (Río Purus), a new species? (October-2014)

From my trip to the Amazon in 2014, I could bring back this form of Apistogramma from the Río Purus:



Source: Apisto-sites

-Apistogramma sp.  (Río Tigre),  two new species?. (October-2014)

From my trip to the Amazon in 2014, I also brought back these two forms of Apistogramma, collected in the headwaters of the Río Tigre.
Whether they are two forms of the same species, or two species of their own, remains to see. They seem anyway to be close related to Apistogramma paulmuelleri.



                  Apistogramma sp. "Río Tigre I"                                              Apistogramma sp. "Río Tigre II"

Source: Apisto-sites

-Apistogramma cf. personata, different locations, one species?. (October-2014)

Before I went to the Amazon this year, a kind and knowledgeable person from Colombia travelled to Mitú, Colombia, to collect some fishes for me.
While I was in Leticia in October, this person kindly brought me Apistogramma cf. personata from several locations around Mitú.

This is the Apistogramma cf. personata from Caño Mítuseño, Mitú, Colombia:



and this is the more high bodied form from Caño Cucura:



Source: Apisto-sites

-The amazing Apistogramma sp. "Gigas" has been described, as Apistogramma kullanderi (December 2014):

A titan among dwarfs: Apistogramma kullanderi, new species (Teleostei: Cichlidae)

Henrique R. Varella & Mark H. Sabaj Pérez.

-Apistogramma sp. "Mitú", a rare guest.

This beautiful species was first found, collected and imported by Uwe Werner and his travel companions in 1996. It was portrayed by Glaser & Glaser the same year, under the name A. sp. "Rio Vaupés", which led to repeated confusions with A. uaupesi.
It has probably not been in the hobby since 1996, as the collectors never succeeded to breed this species.

I got a few very small specimens of this species a couple of month ago, and now they have grown up nicely:



Source: Apisto sites

de jolies choses !

Tu m'étonnes gros faible pour le cf.personata ainsi que le cf.cacatuoides "Rio Acre"

La vache, le personata a une de ces dorsales !

Il y en a de dispo chez Challet Herault en ce moment.....Mais pourquoi j'ai pas de bacs

Des bacs tu en as, mais pas d'eau ^^

Oui c'est ça et c'est encore pire ^^

pascaldau a écrit:La vache, le personata a une de ces dorsales !

Ça y est il y a de la repro et de la diffusion en France!!!

Allez on va vous montrez les dernières nouveautés du site de Monsieur Tom C.


-Several new Apistogramma have been found in Colombia. (April 2015)

Several new species have been found. In order not to reveal the locations, I have named them "D1" to "D6"
(I won't tell you why :-)).

Here I present two of them:

Apistogramma sp. "D2b" (Colombia):



Apistogramma sp. "D3" (Colombia): looks like a A. cf. payaminonis form, but it was collected far away from any, up to now, known location for A. cf. payaminonis.



Source: Apisto-sites

-Apistogramma "Black Mountain" / "Montenegro". (October-2015)

The 2015-trip to the Peruvian Amazon brought us to the Río Sumón , a tributary to the Río Yahuasyacu, which is a tributary to the Río Ampiyacu (Pebas area).

Here lives an interesting, rare Apistogramma cf. ortegai (?) form (It might be exported as Apistogramma "Black Mountains" in the future, the name is a translation of the last name of the fisherman: Montenegro.)  

Males:



Females:



They show no prominent double caudal spot. The female shows two (and a half ) lateral spots in breeding dress, in my tank.

This form could probably be labeled Apistogramma sp. aff. ortegai (Río Sumón).
It MIGHT be identical to the A 92...
and it also shows similarities to the fish labelled Apistogramma cf. eunotus "Spaltenfleck /Split-Spot" (which actually is not an A. eunotus form)....

Source: Apisto-sites

-Re-description of Apistogramma payaminonis with descriptions of two new species: Apistogramma wolli sp.n. and Apistogramma feconat sp.n. (October 26, 2015)

PDF=>http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/vertebratezoology/vz65-3/03_vertebrate_zoology_65-3_roemer_305-332.pdf

Uwe Römer, David Patricio Soares, Carmen Rosa García Dávila, Fabrice Duponchelle, Jean-François Renno & Ingo Hahn

Apistogramma payaminonis is re-decribed in the paper. According to the senior author, my Apistogramma sp. "D3" (Colombia), might be a form of the true species:

Wild male and female (in breeding dress):




In the same paper, Apistogramma wolli sp.n is described.
According to the senior author, the Apistogramma cf. payaminonis (Pantoja) represent this new species:




The second new species which is described in the paper, is Apistogramma feconat sp. n.
This is a description of the species we up to now know as Apistogramma sp. "Zwilling":

Wild male and female (in breeding dress):



Source: Apisto-sites

Sur la page 2, je vous disais qu'il existerai deux morphes d'Apistogramma sp.kelleri.

Une forme avec beaucoup de jaune=> Apistogramma sp. "Kelleri" (Amarillo).

Et la forme classique=>Apistogramma sp. "Kelleri" (Rojo).

De plus certaines fiches espèces ont été complétées par Tom C.

-Apistogramma sp. "Río Purus"

-Apistogramma sp. "Río Tigre I"

-Apistogramma sp. "Río Tigre II"

-Apistogramma sp. "Superorbital" (Río Acre)

-Apistogramma sp. "Schwarzkehl/Black-throat"...Alors ceux là c'est mon nouveau Graal

-Apistogramma viejita Si vous voulez voir à quoi ressemble le VRAI viejita

Et voilà c'est tout pour le moment

Sympa le vrai Viejeta

Coucou à tous

Je vais avoir beaucoup à rattraper ici puisque avec l'ouverture de la Colombie et le retrait des FARC, plusieurs dizaines de nouvelles espèces ont été découvertes
Dont certaines sont en France

Mise à jour demain

Bon demain est largement passé ^^
Je vous ferai un topo un peu plus tard