New Guinea Rainbowfishes

Adrian R. Tappin (atappin at ecn.net.au)
Sat, 27 Jul 1996 09:13:08 +1000

Greetings all,

For the Anti-New Guinea Rainbowfish Lobby I thought I would post a list of
NG Rainbowfishes currently in Australia. I have visions of Unmack doing a
similiar list before he departed this Wonderful Country in search of the
Holy Grail - correct me if I'm wrong Peter. I think it appeared in the
Bulletin?.

Nominal Species of NG Rainbowfishes Currently in the Australian Hobby:

Chilatherina:

axelrodi - was here, not sure of current status?
bleheri
campsi
fasciata

Melanotaenia:

arfakensis
boesmani
catherinae - was here, not sure of current ststus?
fredericki
goldiei
herbertaxelrodi
irianjaya - was here, not sure of current status?
lacustris
maccullochi
misoolensis
monticola
oktediensis
papuae
parkinsoni
praecox
sexlineatus
s.rubrostriata

Glossolepis

incisus
maculosus
multisquamatus
ramuensis
wanamensis
Memberamo sp. (probably a variety of wanamensis? see photo in History of the
Rainbowfishes via my home page)

There may be a couple more that I'm not aware of but anyone can send me an
anonymous email via Finland if they want to update my list ;-)

In the European hobby there are another 2 or 3 (I think from memory) and
Heiko has another 4 new ones he was flogging for around $500.00 a pair if
anyone is interested?

Adrian.

ps. No, I don't have any of those rare & wonderful ones so don't send any
requests!
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Adrian R. Tappin
atappin at ecn.net.au
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
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