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Re: Fp. gardneri nigerianus Akamkpa Dark Morph

        Wow!  maybe I spoke too soon.  Am I following correctly Wright that
ALL of your Akamkpa are dark?  I am definitely finding the dark ones to be a
minority in my population.  I have one week's spawn that appears to all be
light, with no darks at all (though some may be a bit too young to show
yet).  I would be interested in learning about where my fish came from.  I
got one pair at the Convention auction.  Does anyone on the list have any
idea who might have sent them in?

Jay Moylan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wright Huntley" <huntley1 at home_com>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Fp. gardneri nigerianus Akamkpa Dark Morph


> [Chuckling in Fremont}
>
> I had reached the same conclusion as Monte. There possibly is no dark
morph,
> as it is the basic color of all of mine, too. I think Jay has a "golden"
> morph and perhaps was unaware of it.
>
> While Ken Lazara has left these guys as a subspecies of *gardneri* in the
> upcoming KMI, there is considerable evidence (with support growing in the
> literature) that they are truly a unique species in the Gardneri group.
> [Ken's reasoning is sound, I feel, as he pointed out to me that there has
> been no recent comprehensive review of the whole group by competent
> authority.]
>
> Nevertheless, Prof. Huber has listed them as a separate species in
> Killi-Data 2000. [That, alone, may be enough to keep the British and
German
> hobbyists from accepting any nomen change for another 20 years. <VBG>]
>
> Wright
>
> PS. Monte: How about a brief description of the differences in your four
> locations? We don't get to see all of those much of the time.
>
> Monty Lehmann wrote:
> >
> >    Hi Jay!
> >
> >     I finally got around to looking at your photos
> >    of your "dark" morph of gar. Akampha. This
> >     dark morph has the same coloration and
> >     intensity of an F1 strain of Akampa ( spelling
> >     at the time) that I got from Germany in the
> >     middle 1980's. In fact, it looks more like the
> >     Akampa that I was familiar with, than its tank-
> >     mates in the picture.( does this make the pale
> >     colored Akampas "light morph" if I keep them
> >     again since I was used to the dark kind being
> >     the normal variety?
> >
> >      It might interest you to know that the F1 that
> >      I had produced absolutely beautiful lyretails for
> >      a period. I have a slide of one of the lyretails
> >      in my slide collection. I entered the lyretail in
> >      one of the AKA conventions and it brought a
> >      considerable amount of money at the time for
> >      a gardneri!
> >
> >       By the way, I still like gardneri and I currently
> >       have four strains: Lokoja, Misaje, Jos-Plateau
> >       and Mamfense-Ossing.
> >
> >             Regards,
> >
>
> --
>
>        Wright Huntley, Fremont CA, USA, 510 612-1467
>
>     *Rollofia* as a generic name has become the verbal equivalent
>              of *Gambusia* in a desert spring.
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