Re: New Guinea Rainbowfishes

Adrian R. Tappin (atappin at ecn.net.au)
Sun, 28 Jul 1996 09:00:08 +1000

At 20:08 26/07/96 -0700, Peter Unmack wrote:

>I think it appeared in the second Bulletin, either way, it was in one of
>the early ones. I also listed the collection locality details for each
>species too if it was known.

I'm not as "technical" as you Peter, most of the newer ones have come from
the stable of Aquarium Rio so their collecting sites are fairly well known
even though their entry into Australia is somewhat clouded in mystery :0

>> Chilatherina:
>>
>> axelrodi - was here, not sure of current status?
>
>A couple of Vics have this going but they are very thin on the ground. I
>guess they still don't let any of their fish go north....... :-)

No, they hang on to them as if they were family jewels ;-)

Adrian.
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