Hello from France

[Imrahil]

Hi apistologists,
My name is Frédéric, I'm 39, married and I have a daughter (10) and a son (7). I am a micropaleontologist working at the University of Lyon (FR) on marine calcareous plankton (paleo)diversity and (paleo)biogeography.

I am facinated by the dwarf cichlids, especially Apistogramma species from western Amazonia. At home, I currently have 4 tanks (60 to 180 l) with wild pairs of A. nijsseni, A. baenschi and fry of both taxa. I'm here to share about tank fishes and I would like to better know about taxonomy in Apistogramma and natural biotopes. Because of my work, I am also particularly interested to learn about biogeography and modalities of speciation in dwarf cichlids.
Cheers,
Frédéric

 

[Joe Gatchell]

Salut! Welcome to the forum!

 

[Mike Wise]

Small world! My MSc thesis was in Biostratigraphy (Lower Devonian continental slope fauna along the (then) western US). You might be interested in my Paleogeography & Phylogeny of Apisto species-groups. See: http://apisto.sites.no/page.aspx?pageid=119. I am always interested in other people's comments.

 

[Imrahil]

Thanks to both of you.

I can't believe you are a biostratigrapher Mike... You worked on graptolits, conodonts??? Thanks for the link... I know this "paper of the century" . Seriously, this is a fantastic piece of work which was of immense assistance for me. It's really helpfull to have these lineages distribution patterns integrated in a paleo context.
Bravo !

 

[Mike Wise]

Thank you. I mostly worked with brachiopods and supplemented data with conodonts and tetracorals.