Apistogramma Ramirezi
Creators: name: Myers, George Sprague
name: Harry, Robert Rees
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1948
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Cichlidae
Apistogramma
Apistogramma ramirezi

description: Cichlid Identi&amp;filig;ed1 By courtesy of the authors, we are enabled to quote from a scienti&amp;filig;c article by Dr. G. S. Myers and Mr. R. R. Harry, in which they describe and name the new and popular "Ramirezi" Cichlid. They propose for it the name Apistogramma ramirezi, thus utilizing the speci&amp;filig;c name informally given to this &amp;filig;sh by Mr. Herman Blass, of Miami, Florida, who brought the' &amp;filig;sh from Venezuela. "Most closely related to Apistogramma ornatipinne Ahl, and A. ritenre (Haseman), from which it differs strongly in having 92(versus 6) soft anal rays. It is a very deep-bodied species, with the snout bluntly rounded and shorter than the eye. Lower jaw slightly shorter than upper when mouth is closed. Rictus not reaching vertical of front margin of eye. Dorsal &amp;filig;n remarkably high, mostly in adult males, in which the black third spine and its greatly elongated and attenuated black lappet of &amp;filig;n-rnembrane form an important diagnostic character. " The authors proceed to say that the &amp;filig;sh is described principally from an " adult rnale collected by Manuel Vicente Ramirez and Herman Blass in April, 1947, and presented to us by Mr. William T. Innes. The &amp;filig;sh were obtained during a SOO-mile auto trip south across the Llanos from Palenque, Venezuela. Mr. Blass does not know the names of any of the rivers crossed or of the large one at which they turned back, which was probably the Rio Meta. Nor does he know in what river they obtained this &amp;filig;sh. However it is evidently from one of the tributaries of the Rio Apuré or Rio Meta in the states of Guárico, Portuguesa, or Apuré. While the inde&amp;filig;niteness of the type locaiity is most unfortunate, the fauna of these rivers is very similar, and the species probably occurs in both the Meta and the Apuré systems." The authors wish us to point out the confusion likely to occur when nonscientists attempt to give scienti&amp;filig;c names to animals. They say: "It is only luck that the name ramirezi, given to this &amp;filig;sh by Mr. Blass, is preserved. It might just as well have turned out to be a known species, already named. He published no scienti&amp;filig;c description or comparison of his &amp;filig;sh, showing its differences from the others of its genus already known to science. We accept and perpetuate the speci&amp;filig;c name ramirezi for the &amp;filig;sh chie&amp;fllig;y because it has become popularly known to aquarists and to avoid confusion." 1 This article must constitute the original description of Apístogramma ramirezi Myers and Harry, as the intended original description from which this is an abstract (not actually a quote) did not appear until August, 1948. The complete description entitled " Apistogramma ramirezi, a Cichlid fish from Venezuela, 3 " by George S. Myers and Robert R. Harry, appeared in the Proceedings of the California Zoological Club, volume l, number l, pages 1 -8, table 1. 2 The count of 9 soft anal rays is an error. The count should be 8. R. R. H,
description: Published as part of <i>Myers, George Sprague &amp; Harry, Robert Rees, 1948, The Ramirezi Dwarf Cichlid Identified, pp. 77 in The Aquarium 17 (4)</i> on page 77, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16513