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Thanks for the news. It's really nice to have an official name for such a pretty species. Hopefully people will stop confusing it with juruensis.
PS. I noticed the article has 11 authors. So many!
Page 205 is quite interesting. It says:
"Apistogramma allpahuayo sp. n. is the only species of the genus in which functional sex change has been unequivocally recorded."
"Pretor (pers. comm. to UR 2005/2006) kept a functional adult female with typical sexual traits, which successfully reproduced repeatedly before its mate died. After this loss it grew rapidly to normal male size, expressing clear and typical male colours and sex-linked morphological traits. The only fry remaining in the aquarium grew up into a mature female within the approximately six months that followed. Pretor was then surprised to observe this specimen spawning successfully with what was originally its mother."
Amazing.
Thanks for the news. It's really nice to have an official name for such a pretty species. Hopefully people will stop confusing it with juruensis.
PS. I noticed the article has 11 authors. So many!
Spell it? Hell! Pronounce it for me please!!!
Thanks Dave! I'll have to read the paper in full once I get back from the ACA convention. So it sounds like the fish has a pretty wide distribution then...or at least it gets outside of the preserve since I can get them in from Peru on a regular basis.
Well distribution can be a question--they dont collect that wide an area, they cant, time is divided up between lab, writing and etc. --so these could exist in one smaller area on the preserve--but then a larger area outside. Though Uwe has collected them from both inside and outside. It's hard to tell. Since this project started about 5 years ago they are out to answer some questions. They have found out some interesting things about fish we have been getting for awhile.