is it the same fish

[mnjason]

Astatotilapia burtoni and Haplochromis sp. burtoni burundi are they the same fish?I was told that they were different but then after i spawned them was told they were the same fish.The burtoni burundi come from Tanganyika i was told so whats right and whats wrong?

[mapyru]

All Burtoni are endemic from tanganyika lake, it is a fish of the swamp zone of the lake , it can also be found in the river lake basin Rusizi/Ruzizi, Malagarazi, Ifume, Mutambala ... but clearly it doesn't exist in Victoria lake!
Apparently also collected in others lake see :
http://www.africancichlids.net/articles/astatotilapia_burtoni/
Two forms exist a blue and a yellow
Name Astatotilapia burtoni and Haplochromis sp. burtoni are synonyms

in France / Belgium
we have this fish
Haplochromis cf. burtoni "Cathy" Bujumbura (in blue or yellow), this should be the same as the burundi morph

SY,

[mnjason]

thank you very nice read

[KevinB]

This is the A. burtoni I had years ago:


Yellow in a sub-dominant mood



The dominant male turned blue. This is the exact same fish in two different moods.

Kevin

[Endymion]

According to fishbase you can find burtoni in Lake Kivu and Tangayika but I don't know if it is correct.

http://www.fishbase.se/Summary/speciesS ... me=burtoni

[Rico Morgenstern]

According to fishbase you can find burtoni in Lake Kivu and Tangayika but I don't know if it is correct.

A. burtoni does not occur in Lake Kivu. All alleged records from this lake are based on misidentifications of endemic Lake Kivu haplochromines.
The natural range of A. burtoni is in all probability restricted to the Lake Tanganyika basin including only the lower reaches of inflowing rivers. The populations known from Rwandan Lakes, which belong to the Akagera drainage, are possibly introduced (De Vos, Snoeks & Thys van den Audenaerde 2001 "An annotated checklist of the fishes of Rwanda [East central Africa], with historical data on introductions of comercially important species" Journal of East African Natural History 90; pp. 41-68).