RE: does anyone have a clue what is going on in the splendopleure species complex?

["Genade Tyrone <tgenade at sun_ac.za>" <tgenade at sun_ac.za>]

Hi

Clearly poliaki (that fit the discription, i.e. Monea, Ekona etc...) that have the dark fins are very different to 'volcanum' but there is very little difference between 'volcanum' and the splendopleure types.

You talk of hybrid analysis. Does anyone know of this being done? I think Scheel crossed the Tiko strain of splendopleure to several BIT/BIV types (probably the loennbergi phenotypes too). IF not, I have some space and if some one is willing to make some strains available (Tiko Green, Kumba (=volcanum) and Lykoko (cf. splendopleue)) I could try and do the crossings.

tt4n

Tyrone Genade 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Addis [mailto:timaddis at killifish_force9.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 1:30 AM
> To: killietalk at aka_org
> Subject: Re: does anyone have a clue what is going on in the
> splendopleure species complex?
> 
> 
> > Does anyone have a clue what is going on in the 
> splendolpeure complex?
> >
> > I generally go by what is on Rudolf Pohlmann's site
> (http://chromaphyosemion.killi.org/). Looking at Tim's site
> http://www.killifish.f9.co.uk/Killifish/Killifish%20Website/In
> dex.htm I am
> quite confused.
> 
> poliaki & volcanum are both recognised species (with many 
> authorities).
> These sp. need controlled cross breeding experiments over several
> generations if this became possible.
> poliaki also requires careful future research with splendopleure.
> Although both volcanum & poliaki look very similar in certain 
> populations we
> should not jump to the conclusion that they are the same sp.
> Rudolf has kindly given me permission to use his most recent 
> disc on the
> West African site, most photos are now uploaded with the exception of
> splendopleure which is quite large & I have not decided how best to
> catalogue the various populations.
> Chromaphyosemion can be regarded as 'difficult' to easily 
> categorise. Many
> sp. such as #1,#2, #3 etc are still awaiting published 
> classification (at
> least I have not seen any).
> Rudolf's disc contains loads of 'sp.' photos which I have not 
> uploaded. I
> think these could go into a seperate photo reference section 
> until such time
> as they are (if ever) properly considered to belong to a 
> particular sp.
> 
>              Tim
> 
> 
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