> This fish was first introduced to the hobby about 12 years ago by Ray
> Legget. The original fish and by far the best come from a trib. of
> Burdekin R. called Running R. The fish you collect from Hidden valley
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> AFAIK no one has yet finished any taxonomic research on
> this fish. I know Qld Uni got some specimens for the genetic work they
> were doing but I don't think it is completed yet. I hope this helps.
The folks at QU did some work, but didn't find any differences, but they were
only looking at mitochondrial data which can be misleading on its own. I
actually have all the fish ground up from the east coast of Australia (1200 of
them) and will be starting to run allozymes soon, hence that should give some
idea as to whether there are two taxa in the Burdekin or not. Probably by the
end of the year I should have a better idea of what might be going on there.
Tootles
Peter J Unmack peter.unmack at asu.edu
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