cheers,
Gary Lange
gwlange at mindspring.com
Rainbowfish Study Group of North America
www.rainbowfishes.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Tappin <tappin at powerup.com.au>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [RML] Rainbow ID please...
>At 09:48 21/06/01 +0930, you wrote:
>>Looks to me like a Melanotaenia splendida australis from western
Australian
>>possibly Drysdale River but Im no expert....
>
>Definitely an 'australis' type fish. At a guess it is from the South
>Alligator so would now be "Melanotaenia solata" if Jerry is right?
>(Drysdales are totally different than the one shown - body shape as well as
>colour). Also, Eight-line rainbowfish is the usual trade name used in the
>US for M. s. australis.
>
>I had a fish almost identical as that and I'm sure it came from the South
>Alligator River.
>
>I wonder how many australis are around now that have been mixed with other
>river varieties. I guess in the future we'll find that they are all
>different species - certainly some are very very different from each other?
>
>Adrian.
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Shane Graber <chemistboy at excite.com>
>>To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
>>Date: Wednesday, 20 June 2001 3:40
>>Subject: [RML] Rainbow ID please...
>>
>>
>> >I was wondering if someone on the list could identify this rainbowfish:
>> >
>> >http://www.farmertodd.com/newimages/freshies/EightLine.jpg
>> >
>> >I'm guessing that it is some color morph of M. spledida splendida, but
>> >that's just a guess.
>> >
>> >Thanks! :)
>> >
>> >Shane Graber
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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