[RML] Melanotaenia praecox, found around Siewa

Michael Martin Haas (michael.m.haas at netcologne.de)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 03:07:41 -1000

On Adrians Hompage I found the following:

... Melanotaenia praecox are native to the Mamberamo River system,
which forms one of the largest river system in New Guinea...

...More recently they have also been found in swampy habitats around
Siewa, a remote area of northern Irian Jaya just to the west of the
Mamberamo River Basin. These specimens differ from the Mamberamo
representatives in having a red stripe between each scale row and
males do not get so deep-bodied...

Is this spezies already kept in Europa / Germany?
Are there pictures anywhere?

BTW (1)
I don't find the source at the moment, but somewhere I read of I. werneri
which can get a size of 7 cm. Who knows more?

BTW(2)
On 02.01. and 03.01.1999 I was unable to connect
http://www.peter.unmack.net/archive/rml/

Michael