(2010) New Betta species discovered!
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QUOTEApril 9, 2010The above Betta was identified as new species by a group of two crew member researchers from UK. Their new identity was confirmed by DNA test resulted last year.
In fact, this Betta is nothing new to us, it is found in the northern part of Pahang near the coast. Herman and I always ID them as Betta bellica juvenile until we realized it was actually a new species. There are no immediate confirmation whether the fish belongs to the biggest bubble nester group, but soon the answer will be revealed as I’m keeping some of them in my aquarium while the researchers processing the fish descriptions.
It was widely distributed in the peat swamp area with highly acidic water parameter, found together with the fish are Paros nagyi, Betta tussyae and etc…
More info and photo is on the way…
http://natureye.com/betta/new-betta-special-discovered.html
I would like raise a few questions that might be interesting to discuss here:
1. What do you think, a bubblenester or mouthbrooder group member? I don’t dare to say anything conclusive from a single photograph in this particular case.
2. DNA research:
2a. Which species are used in the analysis and which outgroup was used?
2b. How was the analysis formed?
2c. What test did they use exactly? (distance method, parsimony, …)3. DNA results are not neccesarily conclusive and may vary depending on a few things from point 2.
4. How are they different from other, closely related species morphologically and meristically?
Now, I will stress that this is just a guess…. but the fish in the picture looks like it could be a mouthbrooder.
Just a hunch
QUOTE (Colin @ Dec 11 2010, 10:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Now, I will stress that this is just a guess…. but the fish in the picture looks like it could be a mouthbrooder.Just a hunch
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<p>That’s what I’m secretly suspecting as well. It’s flank bar patterning doesn’t really fit bellica, or does it?</p>
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