[acn-l] Re: Hybrids (fwd)

peter.unmack at asu.edu
Wed, 05 Feb 1997 13:18:13 -0700 (MST)

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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 21:43:57 -0800
From: barlow, george w. <barlowgw at GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list CICHLID-L <CICHLID-L at NRM.SE>
Subject: Re: Hybrids

Please specify the sexes in the crosses. Are all the species in the left
column the males? The females? Or is this just random, based on what came
out of the holding tanks?

At 05:11 PM 2/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Some of the hybrids seen on a fish farm in Florida:
>
>Interestingly enough male D.compressiceps in breeding season
>seem to cross with anything available, maybe because they are large
>and quite aggresive.
>Dimidiochromis compressiceps x Pseudotropheus zebra
> " x Cynotialpia afra
> " x Labidochromis exasparatus
> " x Protomelas insignis
>
>I also saw:
>
>Neolamprologus elongatus x Julidochromis dickfeldi
>Limbochromis linni x Limbochromis fuscotaeniatus
>Aristochromis christyi x L.fuscotaeniatus
>Tropheus duboisi x Tropheus moorii
>
>
>--
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>
>
George W. Barlow Ph 510/642-2947
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