Protomelas sp Taiwan Reef

[Wasp]

http://arofanatics.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=560825
http://arofanatics.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=560860
http://arofanatics.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=560878
http://arofanatics.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=560887

Was told above pic is that of a Protomelas sp Steveni Taiwan Reef. Would anyone know whether this the same as Haplochromis Fenastratus? Has the latter been renamed? What about Protomelas Fenastratus? Is it a Protomelas sp Steveni Taiwan Reef?

Sure would like to know what I have in my tank. Two of them! :bawl: :confused:

[degrassi]

your links aren't working

[SGypsyMermaid]

the links are working for me...beautiful fish, but i don't know the answer.

[jnorris]

I would say steveni 2-3" 15 cm and he is in changing phase.....I might be wrong... :lol:

It has been that sort of day.......................

It is an Aluonocara regardless.....until he changes you won't know...NICE fish so far!

not a HAP..............

[Boilermaker]

It is a variant of Protomelas Fenestratus, it was first discovered at Taiwan Reef,hence the name "steveni taiwan".
Yes they did change the name from Haplochromis to Protomelas.
Do a search and check out the adult coloration it's really a beauty.

[jnorris]

I have one...lol

but I have always refered him to an Aulonocara....

http://aulonocara.free.fr/Page_image/aulono_steveni.htm

also look at some bad pictures on my page....

[Boilermaker]

Yours is a Aulonocara J.Norris, Wasp's is a Protomelas in the juvenille stage.
Nice pic. by the way, also I tried to raise the vote on your Front. It's more deserving than what them people gave ya. :x

[jnorris]

I might be crazy (so I have heard). But Taxonomically speaking they could be all Alonocara or something......the debate lives for 35-40 years...

Why not? If not...... They look like Aulonocara.....same shape and taxonomical form.

call it what we will......Stilll a nice fish.....

It confuses the hell out of me!

[SGypsyMermaid]

they are all haplochromines, but they are not all aulonocara...they are definitely related, but they are not the same.

[Overawed]

Jnorris- I'd say that fish is a Aulon. Stuartgranti Bi-color