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AMAZONAS 90 SPECIES SNAPSHOTS ➊ TAREBIA LINEATA ➋ SCLEROPAGES INSCRIPTUS ➌ SCHISTURA SPILOTA ➍ HYPOPTOPOMA SP. ➎ SINELEOTRIS SACCHARAE ➏ BIOTODOMA WAVRINI Banded Melania Snail, Tarebia lineata Tarebia lineata, Banded Melania Snail Some months ago, Aquarium Dietzenbach in 1| Germany imported a little snail species from Indonesia that has almost never been seen before. Tarebia lineata is an attractive yellow-brown turret snail with fine black-brown lines. The shell is about an inch (2.5 cm) high and .4 inch (1 cm) across. In the wild it is often covered in black deposits. The coils are slightly convex, but have nodules immediately beneath the seam, making the transition from coil to coil very clear. The sole of the foot is white to pink in color. The snail is pigmented gray on its head and body. The species belongs to the livebearing and parthenogenetic snails and hence should breed easily in the aquarium. Common in Asian rivers and ponds, it is sometimes regarded as a form of Tarebia granifera, the Quilted Melania Snail. That isn’t of primary importance to the aquarist, whose main interest is in having another attractive invertebrate to watch in the aquarium. —Maike Wilstermann-Hildebrand Scleropages inscriptus, Inscribed Arowana The arawana from Myanmar introduced in AMA- 2| ZONAS Vol. 1, No. 2 has now been described. Ichthyologist Tyson R. Roberts described Scleropages inscriptus from the Tenasserim basin. This river, which empties into the Indian Ocean, is home to many fish species that have been described in recent years or are still awaiting description. Interestingly, Roberts doesn’t accept the species of the S. formosus complex described a few years ago. Only S. formosus, and now also S. inscriptus, a species clearly distinguishable on the basis of meristic and color characters, are placed together in the subgenus Delsmania and thus treated as separate from the Australian species S. leichhardti and S. jardinii. From an aquarium-hobby viewpoint, Scleropages inscriptus hasn’t yet appeared in numbers worth mentioning. That may soon change, at least in Asia. REFERENCES —Hans-G. Evers Roberts, T.R. 2012. Scleropages inscriptus, a new fish species from the Tananthayi or Tenasserim River basin, Malay Peninsula of Myanmar (Osteoglossidae: Osteoglossiformes). Aqua, Int J Ichthyol 18 (2): 113–18. Schistura spilota, Spotted Hillstream Loach Schistura spilota is proof that large hillstream 3| loaches are not that unusual. S. spilota can be 2 inches (5 cm) bigger than Schistura sp. “Arunachal H.-G. EVERS
TOP: K. UDOMRHITTHIRUJ; BOTTOM: J. KÜHNE The Inscribed Arowana, Scleropages inscriptus Pradesh”, which grows to almost 4 inches (10 cm), according to the exporter, and which Hans-Georg Evers has described as unusually large. We caught specimens measuring 4.7 inches (12 cm) in crystal-clear streams and found individuals almost 5.9 inches (15 cm) long in the basket traps of native fishermen, for whom hillstream loaches are prized food fishes. Schistura spilota may have been found west of the Tenasserim Mountains, but it belongs to the fish fauna of Siam, as it occurs in the headwaters of the Mae Nam Klong system, which empties into the Gulf of Thailand. It is not uncommon in suitable biotopes. It lives in natural pools and waterfalls in streams and small rivers where the water is cool (average 75°F/24°C), oxygenrich, and moderately hard (conductivity 180 μS/cm). Spotted Hillstream Loach, Schistura spilota The aquarist may be nervous about this loach’s size, but bear in mind that most loaches grow slowly in the aquarium, one reason why the sizes attainable by hillstream loach species are rarely (or never) documented. This is in stark contrast to the mouthbrooding fightingfishes of the genus Betta, which can grow into real Goliaths in the aquarium, even though they are rarely found at such sizes in the wild. REFERENCES —Jens Kühne Kottelat, M. 1990. Indochinese nemacheilines: A revision of nemacheiline loaches (Pisces: Cypriniformes) of Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia and southern Vietnam. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munich, Germany. AMAZONAS 91
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