What about the bright white spots?
I don't think a fish that spectacular could be found living in the wild, they must have been created through selective breeding and possibily cross breeding.(Even though it mostly resembles a synspilum).
By locale, Lisachromis means that specimens of Vieja synspilum collected from Chiapas, have a different coloration than fish from other collection points. It's a regional variant. Another very good example of this is with Aulonocara stuartgranti. A hybrid is the offspring of two fish of different species (such as a "flowerhorn"). Hybrids are not assigned any binomial nomenclature.
Kewl fish!There is a Synsp variant(not hybrid)called shinespot(which these look like)being bred and distributed in Germany but be carefull b/c there are some Asian bred Vieja hybrids called shinespots as well.Go to AquaMojo and do a search for shinespot and you'll find a few threads there.Tim
Well you learn something everyday. :lol: Thanks guys.
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