Re: [RML] Melanotaenia praecox, found around Siewa

HH (Siewa)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:06:17 -1000

Michael Martin Haas schrieb:
> 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?

No, as far as I know it's not yet in Europe!

> Are there pictures anywhere?

There will be pictures in the aqualog all rainbowfish/atherinid fish which
hopefully is published until June.
>
>
> 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
>
>

Best regards

Harro Hieronimus, Solingen, Germany
harro.hieronimus at t-online.de

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