A New Paretroplus Species

[Mark Smith]

A new species of Paretroplus (Teleostei: Cichlidae: Etroplinae) from northeastern Madagascar, with a phylogeny and revised diagnosis for the P. damii clade
JOHN S. SPARKS & ROBERT C. SCHELLY (USA)

Zootaxa 2768: 55–68 (18 Feb. 2011)

Paretroplus loiselli

[Philippe Burnel]

If you have the PDF file....

seems to be the "ventitry" ?



Philippe

[Mark Smith]

Sparks must have changed his mind, as he previously considered the Ventitry to be a race of P. damii. I'm glad he saw it from Loiselle's perspective.

[Nuchal Man]

Would love to get the PDF if anyone has it.

Thanks,

Sam Borstein

sam@borstein.com

[Philippe Burnel]

Quite a pity to loose the name "ventitry" !

[Mark Smith]

True. If I remember correctly, this fish was "formally described" a few years ago online, but was not valid due to not being correctly published.

[cichla]

An elaborate and informative paper. But why they dont formally name “anjingo”?
There are surely serious reason for it. However, it will be difficult and might be time consuming to find and link all information about this species in future, because there will be different names for it (see the case of Paretroplus sp. “ventitry” which is now named as P. loisellei).