Interests: African catfishes and oddballs, Madagascar cichlids; stoner doom and heavy rock; old school choppers and riding them, fantasy novels, travelling and diving in the tropics and all things nature.
Interests: African catfishes and oddballs, Madagascar cichlids; stoner doom and heavy rock; old school choppers and riding them, fantasy novels, travelling and diving in the tropics and all things nature.
both species have elongated spines in the dorsal (males);
but regani-females have a black and white eyespot; notophthalmus-females a red and white eyespot.
if you have Dr Uwe Romers cichlid atlas, check out page 1041 and there is an excellent shot of a male without any enlarged dorsal spines or membranes.
No regani male I've ever seen or had possessed elongated anterior dorsal membranes, indeed I believed it to be one of the easier ways to distinguish between the two species. I've actually seen considerable variation in colour and position of the dorsal ocellus in female regani even within a single brood, and I think the late Frank Warzel produced a photo montage somewhere demostrating the varying dorsal patterns that can occur with female regani across their distribution.
Not sure what's happened here, I clicked "quote" to reply to Racoll's last message but instead I appear to have annexed it
If you want to delete this and repost your original text I'll have another go.....
