GUPPY AND ENDLER - OLMACA

The reason for the change of scientific name was at least in part that ,Wilhelm Karl Hartwig Peters, head
of the Ichthyology department of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, had described the fish in a
paper on Venezuelan fishes in the bulletin of the Academy many years before Lechmere Guppy sent his
specimens to the British Museum
Julius Gollmer, an amateur German biologist, found "Guppies" in the Rio Guayre near Caracas,
Venezuela, in 1857 and 1858. He sent these fish preserved in jars to the Imperial Prussian Academy of
Science in Berlin. Gollmer's first shipment to the Museum included 61 colourful fish, caught in the Rio