| Meaning
of Name | After
Christian Cauvet, French aquarist & collector. |
| First
Description | Romand.
R. & Ozouf C, Costaz 1995.
Cybium 19 (4):
391-400, 6 figures. |
| Size |
7 cm |
| Meristics |
D=13, A=16·9, D/A=6·6, ll=34·4 (Huber
- Killie Data)(You will need to be registered at this site to open this link). |
| Karyotype |
n=18, A=20 (Huber
- Killie Data). |
| Sub-Genus |
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| Group |
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| Synonyms |
- Aphyosemion cauveti
- Callopanchax
cauveti
- Roloffia
geryi CI 6 / 93 Addis 1993. BKA Newsletter April 1994 No. 343
- A.sp.Etz
- As circulated in the USA.
- Roloffia cauveti
Kinda
- Roloffia
cauveti GRCH 98 / 5
|
Populations
- Barrage de la Loire Atlantique GRCH
93 / 239
- Etz (Roloffia
sp. Etz)
- Kamara Bounyi
- Kindia
(AKA imports were originally distributed as a corrupted spelling - KINDA)
- Siramousaya
(GRCH 93 / 238)
- CI 6/93
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|
Siramousaya-GRCH
93 / 238 wild male photographed a few minutes after collection.
Photo courtesy of Christian Cauvet.
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Siramousaya-GRCH
93 / 238 young wild male.
Photo courtesy of Christian Cauvet.
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Barrage
de la Loire Atlantique-
GRCH 93 / 239 wild male.
Photo courtesy of Christian Cauvet.
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Script.cauveti
CI 6 / 93 wild male
|
This form erroneously
distributed as GRCH 93/5 in the USA. Only 2 codes exist
for this sp. on this trip ( 238 & 239 ).
This photo & the one to the left by Dave Ogershok
|
Etz.
Distributed in the USA as Roloffia
or Aphyosemion sp.Etz.
Photo courtesy of Patrick J.Coleman. See
website for another photo.
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|
Siramousaya
(pair). Photo courtesy of Vasco Gomez - See
website
|
Same fish as that shown
on right.
|
Male obtained
by Henrik Clausen from an SKS auction in Sept. 1998. These were
supplied from the DKG. Henrik was later told "that it was
probably the strain called
"CI 93/6"".
Photo courtesy of Henrik Clausen.
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|
Kindia.
Photo courtesy of Tony
Terceira. This photo is captioned Kinda which is how it was
corrupted at the time of distribution.
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Script.cauveti
Kindia
female.
Photo
courtesy of Dick Cox.
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Photo
courtesy of Dick Cox.
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|
Script.cauveti
eggs.
Photo courtesy of Dick Cox.
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|
Script.cauveti
fry at 2 days of
age.
Photo courtesy of Dick Cox.
|
Etz
- Circulated in the USA as A.sp.Etz. Known
to be still there in 2002. It is reputed to be a very shy fish.
Barrage
de la Loire Atlantique - http://home10.inet.tele.dk/kdinesen/gallery/gallery.html
Roloffia Homepage. Photo by C.Cauvet.
Siramousaya - http://www.garysfishroom.us/pg53.html
Gary Bartell's site
Kindia - http://home.sprintmail.com/~garybartell/pg39.html
Gary Bartell's site GRCH 93 / 5 - Most
likely a corrupted code by a typing error. Imported into the USA & still going
strong in 2003. |
| Type
Locality | Loire
Atlantique, 8 km after the town of Kindia on the road to Télimélé. Preserved material
kept at the Natural History Museum Paris. |
| Distribution |
Restricted to the foothills of the northern Guinee plateau.
Occupies an area between S.geryi in the west
& S.guignardi to the east. |
| Habitat |
|
Photo courtesy
of Christian Cauvet
GRCH93 / 239 "Barrage de Loire Atlantique" collecting
place. 'the brook : you can see there is no shadow at all. It
was a verywarm
place. All the cauvetis were on the surface, not shy and could
be caught,
quite chosen, one by one with a small net.
|
Photo courtesy
of Christian Cauvet
GRCH93 / 239 "Barrage de Loire Atlantique" collecting
place.'a more general sight of the place : you can see than
the small brook
is under a small dam from which the water comes.
|
Photo courtesy of Christian Cauvet
- 'A panel near the dam explaining that it had been built with
the
financial aid of the french departement of Loire Atlantique. It
is the reason why, with a funny thought, I called the population
"barrage de Loire Atlantique" |
|
Photo courtesy
of Christian Cauvet. GRCH93 / 239 "Barrage de Loire Atlantique"
collecting place.- 'end view of the dam.
|
|
The
Kindia location is 455 metres above sea level. Christian
Cauvet collected this sp. in clear water with a flow & a high temperature.
Water depth recorded at 30 cm. Water temperature recorded as being between 20
- 28°C. Christian Cauvet sent
me this information - 'During my 3 collecting trips for Roloffia, collecting places
238 and 239 were the only ones where I could catch quantities of wild adult Scriptaphyosemion.
Scriptaphyosemion you can catch are mostly young fish, and very few fully developed
as cauveti were. This was true whatever the season : I collected in November in
SL and Guinea and in April in Guinea ( this is not true with Callopanchax...you
can get big fish in November)'. |
| Distinguishing
Characteristics | . |
| Colour/Pattern
Variability | . |
| History |
Collected by Ch. Cauvet,
J.M. Hervieux and R.Romand in November 1993 in 2 locations (Siramousaya &
Barrage de la Loire Atlantique. Prior to this collection they were known as undescribed
sp. in imports in England & Germany from a commercial collector in Guinea.
The Kindia location was not collected on this trip although it is only a few kms
from the locations mentioned above. The following
is an extract from a paper by Romand and Ozouf-Costaz
(Cybium, 1995, 19(4), 391-400) who first described A.
cauveti as a new species. Unfortunately no information about water
conditions in the paper. "The holotype (adult male) and allotype (adult female)
were collected from a small brook after a small dam (the "Loire Atlantique") 8
km after the town of Kindia on the road to Télimélé. The paratypes comprise 8
specimens from the same locality as the holotype and 5 specimens from a small
brook 11 km after the town of Kindia on the road to Télimélé, close to the village
of Siramousaya". |
| Breeding
Notes | Wright
Huntley of the AKA kindly filled in the breeding box regarding breeding information
on this sp.
A pair, kept in a window-lit 2.5G vertical drum bowl, spawned
regularly in
the hanging mops that went from surface to bottom. Most of the
eggs seemed
to be about a third of the way down the mop, but they were everywhere.
Water
was soft and relatively cool (120 ppm tds and 72-74F). Plants were
mostly
Java moss and no eggs were found in the moss, usually. Some Java Ferns
(dwarf variety) were added later, as the fish seemed to like some structure
to hover near, and quick places to hide. Sponge filter was going all the
time. If I forgot to collect eggs for a few days, the mop would be so full
that I had eggs all over my hands by just handling it.
Moving the pair
to a 3G "Eclipse" tank caused a near stop to egg production
until
I noticed that all morning spawning activity was in the rather coarse
gravel,
and not in the mop. Heavily planted with Java moss, Anubias
(var.
nana)on a driftwood "log",
*Ap. crispus* Water Sprite and a Banana Plant,
the substrate is about 2-3mm grains of a fired clay product sold in the US
under the name "Flourite." The female seems to initiate spawning
and leads
the eager male to a spot on the gravel that she selects. There
they act like
a couple of foolish Salmon as they shimmy together and grind
bellies into
the rough terrain.
Considered
to sex out after 6 weeks but can take 6 months to become sexually mature. |
| Diameter
of Egg | . |
| Remarks |
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