Heros

[Florent]

ummmm..... Fabien, which is the correct spelling for where you live please? French Guiana or French Guyana? Thanks

Ken

French Guiana is used in Weidner'book , Mary Bailey make the eenglish adaptation so I think is the correct spelling

[Grange]

Would you help me to ID these Heros? The color balance is correct. The fishes were imported from Germany in 2004 as Heros "Blau". May be this variation wild or Heros "Blau" is a bridal form?

1. Pair in normal coloration. Photo: Slava Judakov.
[img]http://www.american.cichlids.ru/images/ ... blau_p_(sj).jpg[/img]

2. Female in breeding coloration. Photo: Eugene Granovsky.
[img]http://www.american.cichlids.ru/images/ ... b1_(grange).jpg[/img]

Heros sp. “Franz-Guyana” = Heros sp. "blue"

Fabien, you published the photo of fish in the similar breeding coloration.
http://www.agaankoy.com/galleries/Faune ... yiyi-f.jpg
But the normal colors on your other photos are yellow-brown...

[Bojan Dolenc]

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с) KULLANDER (CLoFFSCA, 2003) - ...The nominal species H. severus (common, non-mouthbrooder) has wide distribution and may claim to be an ancestor of aquarium severum. ....

Is that true? I don`t think so. Kullander wrote in that paper about its distribution this: Heros severus Heckel 1840; 362. Type locality: bei Marabitanas, in Rio Negro. Syntypes: ?NMW 17354(1), ?17638(1), ?17656(1). Distribution: Orinoco River basin; in the upper Orinoco River drainage in Colombia and Venezuela; Amazon River basin in the upper Negro River basin. Countries: Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia.

That is correct, isn`t it?

Reference: http://books.google.si/books?id=9tiDHrz ... os&f=false
= 2003 Check list of the freshwater fishes of South and Central America - Roberto E. Reis, Sven O. Kullander, Carl J. Ferraris, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul. Porto Alegre, RS. Brasil.