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individual thathadbeenphotographedat
an export station in Brazil. The fish in the
photo was labeled
Corydoras
sp. “Asher”.
Asher is the name of the exporter. From
that time on every mailed catfish
enthusiast has dreamed of seeing these
attractive fishes at least once in the flesh.”
So much for the report on the first
importation back then in News 13. The
scientificdescription tookplace in2003, ie
6 years later. We also published the first
breeding report on the new species in
News 24 (seenext page).
Male
Corydoras tukano
, still knownas
C.sp.aff. reynoldsi
or
C.
sp.“Asher”back then.
ith some 150 described species,
the genus
Corydoras
, the mailed
catfishes, is a very species-rich group of
catfishes. Nevertheless species are
repeatedly imported to Europe that
cannot be ascribed to any of the existing
described species. Often, however, they
W
Issues 13-55 of the AQUALOG News appeared from November 1997 to
November 2003, and were now in single-language versions, in other
words therewere separateGerman and English versions.These issues of
theNewshadanewspaper formatwitheightpagesof content. In issue13
we presented one of the loveliest mailed catfishes,
Corydoras tukano
, for
the first time, in anexclusive article.This species toowas still scientifically
undescribedat the time,andwas knownas
Corydoras
sp.
aff. reynoldsi
.
Corydoras tukano
byFrankSchäfer
are very similar to previously imported
species.Bycontrast, the speciespresented
here for the first time is an aquarium-
hobby sensation. The aquarium world
became aware of this fish via a photo in
the Japanese magazine Aquamagazine,
Vol 33, in spring 97, which showed an
Retro:Panzerwelse
The“real”
C. reynoldsi
fromColombia.
Pair of
C. tukano
,male left.
