Re: [Killietalk] Code Woe's 2

[Brian Watters <bwatters at shaw_ca>]

Markus Brown wrote:

>
> Now, to only figure out the confusion of the PEG 98/5 collection location
> code frequently found with A. d. abacinum in the hobby. Doesn't
> seem to be
> on the radar. Not on Tims' West African site, or Mr. Langtons WCK
> publication. Rumors suggest that it is seegersi 98/5, but I
> cannot seem to
> find a published reference for any seegersi being collected in
> this location from Wolfgang and Guido.
>

I am not sure if I can help with this one but I will do some digging.

>
> One last question. The abbreviation aff. means what exactly? example:
> Aphyosemion (Diapteron) sp. aff.abacinum PEG 98/7
>

There is a very useful online "Dictionary of Ichthyology by Brian Coad at:
http://briancoad.com/Dictionary/A.htm
that has definitions for pretty well every ichthyological term you will
encounter.

affinis = related to but not identical with, affinity, relationship,
sometimes misleadingly employed as a synonym for phenetic similarity (or
akin to).
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