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The Elfin Goodeid
By: Richard C. Griffiths
Neotoca bilineata is one fish which has had its' moments in the Aquarium hobby. At various times it has had it's moments of recognition, dominance, and enjoyment within the hobby, as well as its low points where it wasn't readily available to the aquarist.
In, or rather on, the back cover of the August 1935 The Aquarium, a now defunct but highly enjoyable monthly magazine, the fish was pictured--and that was probably a remarkable feat for a fish to have gained that type of recognition, since it had only been discovered some 50 years before. Now of course, any new Victorian cichlid is food for fodder on covers because of their color and endangered habitat.
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The Elfin goodeid, as it is commonly known, was first described by Bean in 1887 as Characodon bilineatus. Fifteen years later, C. S. Meek reclassified it as a Skiffia--one of the members of a new genus he created for two other new species--Skiffia lermae and Skiffia variegata (a junior synonym of Skiffia lermae). A further, and perhaps last, reclassification occurred almost sixty years ago when C.L. Turner and Carl Hubbs erected a new genus--Neotoca--specificially for this fish. Who knows the ways and whys of ichthyologists!?
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Posted on Sunday, February 18 @ 22:03:27 EST by goodeids |
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