A.Trifasciata

[apisto_shores]

I apologize in advance for the lack of pictures, I don't have a digital
camera. I just took pictures with regular camera tonight(4-18-05).
Maybe in afew days I'll post them. My question is I have two pairs of
Trifasciata's one pair the male has a yellow face with blue speckles
throughout the body and a small splotch of orange in the dorsal and
in the other pair the male has no yellow in his body at all, but has all
sorts of blue and slight green with a dash of orange in his dorsal(like the
one pictured on this site in the gallery) are these both Tri's or is one something else.Both have had a brood of fry.Both have the Cacatuoides dorsal and lyre unpaired fins and a black lateral line. Any clues anyone?
Thanks

 

[blueblue]

As there is no picture, I could only try my best to guess.
I think one is a typical A.Trifasciata and the other one is
an A. Maciliensis:
http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/csta/aqua/fish/cichlid/apmacili.htm

 

[Greg PL]

Apisto_shores did not mention the 3rd band in his fish.
if they have it - they're trifasciata. if any of them doesn't show it - it could be A sp. "Rio Mamore"/maciliensis. aothough the latest should be bigger, more "massive" than the tri in my opinion.

Greg

 

[Mike Wise]

blueblue's photo link does NOT show A. maciliensis. It shows an undescribed species presently called A. sp. Mamoré, probably from the lower Rio Guaporé.

I have only seen photos of fish that probably are A. trifasciata maciliensis one time (besides the figures in the descriptions of A. t. maciliensis & A. t. haraldschultzi). A. t. maciliensis appears to be lake dwelling populations of A. trifasciata that are identical to the type A. trifasciata except for the 3rd diagonal stripe that is visible only on larger preserved specimens. A. sp. Mamoré is a deeper bodied fish with no diagonal stripe & a lateral band that is different from A. trifasciata & A. t. maciliensis.

 

[apisto_shores]

Mine looks like this one but has more yellow in the face and orange
in the dorsal. http://pages.infinit.net/apisto/trifasciata.jpg

 

[fishboy20]

There are several different color morphs of A. trifasciata. These include the normal blue form usually seen and a yellow morph with yellow on the face region.

 

[Mike Wise]

Mine looks like this one but has more yellow in the face and orange
in the dorsal. http://pages.infinit.net/apisto/trifasciata.jpg

The fish pictured is a domestic form probably derived from specimens collected from the Rio Paraguay system. To give credit where credit is due, this picture is by Horst Linke & can be found in the 1984 - 2003 editions of the Linke & Staek books, Amerikanische Cichliden I - Kleine Buntbarsche / American Cichlids I - Dwarf Cichlids. It's a shame that the web site that used the picture doesn't give the photographer credit.