If they are M. affinis (Pagwi) then you have some very nice fish indeed. I
cannot think of a name that comes close to carae.
Regards,
Bruce ( Hansen )
vicepresident - ANGFA Inc, ANGFA (Qld) Inc
Please visit us at http://www.angfa.org.au
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Sleet" <rsleet at charitynet.org>
To: <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 7:51 PM
Subject: [RML] Recent new species ??
> I was in a shop in Bethnal Green (London) yesterday and saw some rainbows
in
> a tank, they were unlabeled, but there was a scrawl off M.Aff on the
label.
> I asked the shop owner and we said he wasn't sure, as someone "who knows
his
> rainbows" said they were M. carae or carii or something like that, given
the
> way he pronounced maccullochi it could be almost anything beginning with
c.
> I succumbed and bought a couple on spec they looked healthy and weren't
> expensive.
> I suspect that they are affinis, especially as that is what they were sort
> of labeled as, they are a bit small to be fully coloured, but the male
shows
> a distinct red line above and below the lateral line, exactly like the
> pictures on the CD and in Allens book. However, I have a vague memory of
> seeing something about a new rainbow called something like M. Carae, and
> wondered if there was such a fish and if so, is there any possibility that
> I've got a pair.
> won't be disappointed if they are affinis, as I didn't have any.