My Apistogramma Tefe

[Calf]

The first picture is parent fish. Both of the second and the third are its children.

 

[Mike Wise]

I wonder if someone is 'pulling someone's leg' here. Definitely look like A. sp. Tefé from the Rio Tefé system. The "Rio Mutum" location is very strange. The Rio Mutum (Amazonas State; there is also one in southern Brazil's Pantanal) is a tributary of the Rio Jutai which is separated from the Tefé system by the larger Rio Juruá system. Either A. sp. Tefé has a very strange pattern of distribution or someone wanted to use the Mutum location for some other reason. It won't be the first time. The Jutai even was used to 'hide' the real location of some Colombian species. Nice photos of nice fish, wherever they were collected.

 

[Calf]

I wonder if someone is 'pulling someone's leg' here. Definitely look like A. sp. Tefé from the Rio Tefé system. The "Rio Mutum" location is very strange. The Rio Mutum (Amazonas State; there is also one in southern Brazil's Pantanal) is a tributary of the Rio Jutai which is separated from the Tefé system by the larger Rio Juruá system. Either A. sp. Tefé has a very strange pattern of distribution or someone wanted to use the Mutum location for some other reason. It won't be the first time. The Jutai even was used to 'hide' the real location of some Colombian species. Nice photos of nice fish, wherever they were collected.

In fact I don't know exact collecting river. Fishmonger said he purchased some "Tefe" fish from Japanese collector and these fish were marked "Rio Mutum". About the Amazon I don't have more knowledge, so I don't realize this mistake. Thanks for your explanation.