Catalog info

[MsCichlid]

Is it possible to include more information on the species listed? Perhaps images of the juvies with the adult and a link to the paper that describes the fish?

Thanks

[Juan Artigas]

Are you a subscriber?

[MsCichlid]

yes

[Juan Artigas]

Thanks for your feedback and suggestions, we are working very hard to increase the information in the catalog every passing day. As you may have noticed, we regularly include at least one new full profile each week (or more when possible). Today there are 101 genera profiles and 690 species profiles completed with most information available on those genera/species. We always aim to include as much information as possible in each profile. In fact, each profile is a full article about the species treated. Just today we published the full profile for the newly described Hemitaeniochromis brachyrhynchus (filled up by the author's description Michael Oliver himself), two days ago we published the full profile for Lepidiolamprologus lemairii and one more profile is already on review to be published this week. As for pictures of fry, many species profiles count with pictures of fry, as well as juveniles, normal color, dominant color, females, as well as many geographical variations (For example the profile on Metriaclima zebra has 113 pictures in natural habitat as of today). As you may have noticed most of the pictures are taken in natural habitat and even for the best fish photographers in the world it is sometimes not easy to get pictures of fry or every fish mood. However, we aim to count with pictures of every geographical variety and every stage of the fish shown in the catalog. As of today we have an staggering 8,786 great quality pictures, whose identification has been determined by the top world experts, and we have been including new pictures every single day (at a rate between 100-200 new pictures each month) and will continue to do so for the time to come. Today, I can safely say there are more cichlid information in the Cichlid Room Companion than in any other information source in the world, and we will continue improving the site on a continuous basis, as we have done it for the past 16 years. As for links to original descriptions, we will have the possibility shortly to offer subscribers copies of the original descriptions for many cichlid species whose descriptions are public domain, we cant however do so for papers whose rights are reserved. We really thank you for your interest and support to the Cichlid Room Companion and please rest assure we are committed to please those that support us, thanks to whom we are still online without having any source of external financing. With regards