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New species:
Labeotropheus chlorosiglos Pauers, 2016
Labeotropheus simoneae Pauers, 2016

Two New and Remarkably Similarly Colored Species of Labeotropheus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Malaŵi, Africa
Michael J. Pauers
Copeia 104, No. 3, 628–638, 2016

http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.1643/CI-15-360




Dans les commentaires j'ai vu ça d’intéressant:

Labeotropheus chlorosiglos = Labeotropheus cf. fuelleborni "Katale"
Labeotropheus simoneae = Labeotropheus trewavasae "Katale"

Source : Cichlid Room Companion

"A new paper has been published proposing the erection of two isolated geographical variants of Labeotropheus from Katale Island and a close-by reef as new species (although the GPS coordinates for both localities are identical). The criteria offered for this action is supported by the fact that such populations are reproductively isolated, exhibit somewhat different body proportions versus Labeotropheus fuelleborni and L. trewavasae and a different color pattern. Labeotropheus simoneae is named after the author's daughter and is restricted to a reef near Katale Island. It is stated to mainly differ from other Labeotropheus in having orange coloration on the operculum of males and an overlapping but in average slightly shallower body (26.9-30.8% of the standard length versus 26.3-33.4 % for the L. trewavasae) examined specimens. Labeotropheus chlorosiglos specific name is derived from the Greek meaning "green-earrings". It is probably restricted to Katale Island and differs mainly from L. trewavasae in having an partly overlapping but on average deeper body (31.9-34.7% of standard length versus 26.3-33.3% in L. trewavasae) and a generally wider space between the eyes (40.6-43.5% of head length vs. 36.0-42.8% in L. fuelleborni and 29.6-40.5% in L. trewavasae). This paper does not recognize the variability of Labeotropheus isolated populations and may open the door for the description of many more populations as new species (as indicated in the text discussion). The morphometric comparisons have just been made against the type material of the nominal species, which is compared to material obtained from a commercial source, leaving out (in agreement with the criteria used) the high variation found in the many known isolated populations of Labeotropheus.

Pauers, Michael J. 2016. "Two new and remarkably similarly colored species of Labeotropheus (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Malaŵi, Africa". Copeia. v. 104(n. 3), pp. 628-638 "

Visiblement l'oeuvre d'un splitter . . .
M'en va demander l'avis de tonton Ad !

réponse de Ad

"Bonjour Philippe,

Of course the descriptions are frivolous and I won't accept any such sort of descriptions. On cichlidae.com I just wrote a little editorial about it. Another problem is of course the fact that these amateurs use fish collected by African collectors with the precise location unknown. In the Pauers paper he says Katale Island for one and "Reef near Katale Island" for the other but the GPS coordinates are both exactly the same, i.e. Katale Island. So we still don't know whether the trewavasae (cq simoneae (should have been simonae of course)) came from Luwino or from Maison Reef. The GPS coordinates of one of them must be wrong. Sloppy stuff. And about 6 years ago I had to review the same paper for Copeia and rejected it. Very little was changed (the names were) and now Copeia accepted it. Probably asked Lamboj to review it.
Anyway I will suggest L. flepii to him for his next series.Like Trump, these people are oblivious to critics and just continue their disastrous course.

Cheers,
Ad"

Merci Flep et Ad
Ça me semblait chelou effectivement.