Re: saltwater killies

["Doug Dame" <dameda at shands_ufl.edu>]

Kevin Kogler wrote:

>>  A friend of mine just came back from Florida 
>>  and wanted to know if I wanted any salt water 
>>  killies?  He described them as silver-white with 
>>  black stripes and larger ones usualy had some 
>>  yellow on them. 


I'm thinking these are very likely F. similis ... see a fair px at ..... 
       http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?ID=3205&genusname=Fundulus&speciesname=similis 

This is a light-colored, torpedo-bodied fish with thin dark vertical stripes, ranging up to a good four inches.

   (Not so sure about the "Is difficult to maintain in aquarium" though, I think this is one of the typical tough as leather killies often found in brackish water.)


Someone suggested possibly Adenia xenica.  The A.x's I've seen are more of spade-shaped fish with a relatively "tall" fore-body and a much slimmer hind-quarters, distinctly dark-colored (chocolate-brown to greenish-brown) with vertical cream or white bands, and dark fins with many light markings .... a shorter fish, about 2 inches, and, I think, once seen not easily confused with anything else in the area.. I have it in mind ... but I'm sure where I got the idea .. that they need a lot of veggie material to thrive, like mollies. This is a very good px from the AKA site ....

    http://www.aka.org/AKA/Gallery/Miscellany/xenica.JPG 


HTH

Doug Dame
Interlachen FL




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