dear unclescott,
dr. loiselle did speak at our local club several years ago when he gave a
presentation on his trips to madagascar. (actually he spoke a few times, but
only once on madagascar). he mentioned that they found a few (2 or 3)
Bedotia species, including some undescribed species, that is blue and silver
(and according to harro, is available in the european hobby). i saw 2 of hte
new species in his lab but htey were very small and colorless at the time.
he said they were from higher altitudes in areas very hard to get to (if my
memory is correct). he also had at the time both Pachypanchax omalanotus and
the other species (playfayri?) in his lab.
sorry i don't have a whole lot of info on this.
In a message dated 5/28/2001 1:31:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
unclescott at prodigy.net writes:
> While thinking of Madagascar rainbows.... San Francisco's Al Castro
> mentioned a couple of years back that Paul Loiselle, most recently of the
> New York Aquarium and a study project in Madagascar was going to speak at
> the West Coast Weekend. Al noted that Loiselle felt that there was not one
> but several species of the killie genus Panchypanchax. They seemed also to
> have speciated in the highlands and in the lowlands. Bedotia also might have
> several species and again a highland/lowland separation.
>
> Would Wright or anyone else there have recollections of that presentation?
> Has Loiselle committed any of that to print? Would New Yorker Tsuh Yang
> Chen, a frequenter of this list, have had occasion to pick up some of this
>
tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orchidspecies
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dear unclescott,
dr. loiselle did speak at our local club several years ago when he gave a
presentation on his trips to madagascar. (actually he spoke a few times, but
only once on madagascar). he mentioned that they found a few (2 or 3)
Bedotia species, including some undescribed species, that is blue and silver
(and according to harro, is available in the european hobby). i saw 2 of hte
new species in his lab but htey were very small and colorless at the time.
he said they were from higher altitudes in areas very hard to get to (if my
memory is correct). he also had at the time both Pachypanchax omalanotus and
the other species (playfayri?) in his lab.
sorry i don't have a whole lot of info on this.
In a message dated 5/28/2001 1:31:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
unclescott at prodigy.net writes:
While thinking of Madagascar rainbows.... San Francisco's Al Castro
mentioned a couple of years back that Paul Loiselle, most recently of the
New York Aquarium and a study project in Madagascar was going to speak at
the West Coast Weekend. Al noted that Loiselle felt that there was not one
but several species of the killie genus Panchypanchax. They seemed also to
have speciated in the highlands and in the lowlands. Bedotia also might have
several species and again a highland/lowland separation.
Would Wright or anyone else there have recollections of that presentation?
Has Loiselle committed any of that to print? Would New Yorker Tsuh Yang
Chen, a frequenter of this list, have had occasion to pick up some of this
info from Loiselle?
tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orchidspecies
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