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couple ap. pertensis?

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I cannot be positive from the photos, but I think the male is A. cf. pertensis. I cannot ID the other fish. It might be a female of the same species.
 

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Females will have a lower dorsal fin, shorter ventral fins, & a paler pattern on the caudal fin. It should have the same head & mouth shape as the male, but the body is usually shorter and deeper. It should have very little or no blue color stripes around the eye or on the head in general.
 

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The first 3 photos show A. cf. pertensis. Those with a round tip on the rear part of the dorsal fin are females (males have a pointed dorsal tip). Photo 4 shows an agassizii-group species, but the photo is too poor for identification. Photo 5 is a mixture of A. cf. pertensis + an agassizii-group species.
 

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I cannot identify the agassizii-group fish. It might be A. pulchra, which is a member of the agassizii-group. Your photos show several male A. cf. pertensis.
 

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No. A. meinkeni is a very small species with low dorsal fin & heavy body. In the 1980s A. cf. pertensis was thought to be A. meinkeni. It was pictured as A. meinkeni in several books. Later it was called A. cf. meinkeni, but it is more closely related to A. pertensis. So it is more accurate to call it A. cf. pertensis.
 

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