When I first saw the T. bondti they reminded me in general appearance and
behaviour of some kind of odd P. signifer. I had only ever seen T. ladigesi
alive and a few "dead" pictures of some of the other "Celebes sailfins"
Regards,
Bruce ( Hansen )
vicepresident - ANGFA Inc, ANGFA (Qld) Inc
Please visit us at http://www.angfa.org.au
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Lange" <gwlange at mindspring.com>
To: "rainbowfish list" <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 2:27 AM
Subject: Re: [RML] Madagascar Rainbows/Telmatherina?
> Have you done any comparisons with Telmatherina and Pseudomugil? I sent
you
> a T. bondti in that DNA gift package :-) To me, they really look and act
> like blue-eyes. The T. bondti actually fooled Bruce when he saw it for
the
> first time in SF or at least I think that's the way it played out. If I
> remember correctly Jerry Allen picked it up right off. Photographic
memory
> would be a nice think to have :-) I had picked some up about a year
earlier
> from Phil Farrell who had some reasonable ID shots on them so I knew what
> they were only because of that paper. The bondti males also swim in tight
> little circles like the blue-eyes flaring their fins at each other.
>
> Gary Lange
> gwlange at mindspring.com
>
>
> >No, Bedotia is much closer to Melanotaenia. Recent molecular results by
> >others seem to support the inclusion of Bedotia as being part of
> >Melanotaeniidae. My initial sequence results for a nuclear gene puts
> >Pseudomugil as the sister group to Craterocephalus and Melanotaenia.
> That's
> >only for one gene though, hence I wouldn't put too much faith in it yet.
> >
> >Tootles
> >Peter
> >
>
>
>