GBN 88

Collected by Friedrich Bitter & Roland Numrich, Gabon 1988.
See BKA Killi-News No.293 (Feb. 1990).

GBN88 / 6

Small stream 20 kms past the Mbadi turning flowing through a medium height stand of bamboo. This stream passed beneath the track. Water was less than a metre deep. A stream length of 10 metres was blocked off & fished. Fish collected included:
Plataplochilus chalcopyrus, Epiplatys singa, E.huberi, Ctenopoma nanum, Chromidotilapia sp., Hemichromis sp., Hemichromis elongatus, Barbus sp '5 Spot',Barbus cf. holotaenia, Barbus cf. guirali & A.primigenium.
Apyosemion lived in close contact with the overgrown bank.
Bitter takes issue with differences between his collected material & that portrayed in the Aquarium Atlas Vol.2.
A.primigenium was found in the next 2 streams. Water temperature 27°C in places exposed to the sun.

GBN88/7 A.primigenium - an intense red form of this sp. collected.
GBN88 / 8 A.primigenium, E.huberi
GBN88 / 10

Route 21, 100·5 km past the turning to Tohibanga. .A.aff.primigenium, Doumea typica, Nannacharax parvus maculata, Synodontis batesii. Same also for location 11. E.huberi is recorded as a form described as a 'variant' of this sp.
All males caught at this location showed a similar colour patterning. 'Only outer fin borders varied in colour & were blueish white or yellow'.

GBN 88/11 Route 21, 126 km past the turning to Tohibanga.
GBN 88/16 Return journey on the N6 after Tohibanga A.primigenium corresponding to that collected at Lebamba.
GBN88 / 17 - Nzénzélé A.ocellatum, Episemion sp.
GBN88 / 29 - 10 km northeast of Sam towards Oyém D.cyanostictum

 

Many wild caught A.joergenscheeli died during or shortly after transit. These were mainly adult fish. Younger fish fared better.