Bart Hazes
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I found a pair of A. agassizii with fry this morning and thought it was time to figure out which colour form this was. I had looked in the past but didn't find a good match. Today I think I found a potential match with specimens shown by Tom Christoffersen from a collecting trip on Río Tamshiyacu (http://apisto.sites.no/page.aspx?PageId=61). Tom suggested his specimens may correspond to the rare form called Apistogramma cf. agassizii "Pastel" (A239). Looking up A239 in the DATZ 'Sonderheft' my fish, and those found by Tom, have a more pronounced yellow head and mine differ from both in having more of the pastel blue, including in the unpaired fins.
Image of the male
Image of the female (sometimes she has a double flank spot like in this image, sometimes only one)
Image of the male
Image of the female (sometimes she has a double flank spot like in this image, sometimes only one)