[Killietalk] A. sp. Bitter problem

[Mike McConville <bobberly1 at gmail_com>]

Okay, so we've got a problem here. The species I received as Aphyosemion 
sp. Bitter through Janwillem Hoetmer looks like a striatum. Here's a 
picture:
http://www.nakashima.org/gaphyosemion_sp_bitteri_gbh01_25.htm
However, Tim Addis and others have an ogoense-like fish, a picture of 
which can be found on his site here (scroll down a bit):
http://www.killifish.f9.co.uk/Killifish/Killifish%20Website/Ref_Library/Aphyosemion/A.ogoense.htm

Perplexing, no? One hint I have found is that the striatum-bitters are 
usually labeled with GBH 01/23, while the ogoense-types come with no 
locality info. Is it possible that he put his name on two species, which 
in their status of being barely present in the hobby, became conceived 
as the same species. I'm not going to give this discussion any 
direction, comment with whatever thoughts and speculations you have. 
Thanks for reading and (hopefully) caring about this mix-up.
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