Kinsuka

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History

In the early 1970's Geoff Wood collected many populations, which were sent to the UK, 2 of these being assigned the same population name - Kinsuka & Kisantu.

Kinsuka - Situated 2 km from the Congo-Zaire River approximately at the Kinsuka Falls. The second population also distributed as Kinshasa. A fish known as A.cognatum Kinshasa circulated for some years in the early 1980's but many people consider the collection point to have been nearer Kinsuka. In either case the original fish were caught by Wood in the mid 1970's. These fish were brought to the UK. Three months later he returned to the collection site but found that the area had been bulldozed & the habitat destroyed.

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Images

Kinsuka (distributed in the BKA as Kinshasa in the early 1980's)

Kinsuka (same fish as that shown on the left but taken later, hence caudal extensions) Note pattern differences in anal, dorsal & pectorals as the fish aged.

Kinsuka. Photo courtesy of Maurice Chauche & the KCF website.

 

 

Kinsuka http://www.kcfweb.com/image/photo/chauche/image54.htm KCF Library

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