ARK - Arizona Rivulin Keepers

The following is from the personal website of Olivier Legros. It is offered here with the with the author's permission.

It has been translated using Babel Fish and then edited by Allan Semeit.

Areas to be explored -(Régions à explorer)

The systematic study of Chromaphyosemions is not an easy matter. This is complicated by having only an approximate knowledge of the distribution ranges of the species.

Below is a non-exhaustive list of the areas to be explored in order to help the killiphiles in the planning of their collections:

A. bitaeniatum

Triangle Akuse-Ho-Lome (SE Ghana, So Togo)
Is delta of Niger, area of Umudike towards the area of Calabar (relations with SPP and BIV)
North of the Niger river

A. bivittatum

Area of Calabar and with north (relation between the ILO and BIV, BIV and SPP |
Area of Mundemba-Fungé-Ekondo Titi, and with the south and the north of these last (relations between BIV and SPP)

A. splendopleure s.l.

Between the rivers Wouri and Mungo
Lake Ossa, small islands of the lake Ossa and Sanaga to the surroundings of Dizangué
Fernando Po; Surroundings of Koukoué
Surroundings of Solé-Touwata
Surroundings of Kopongo-Bonépoupa
Sedimentary coastal tape close to Campo

A. riggenbachi

Triangle Nkapa-Loum-crossroads of Bonépoupa
South of the Sanaga River

A. loennbergii

North of Sanaga: area in the south of Kekem, area of Nkongsamba
Area of Bipindi ( A. pappenheimi )
Equatorial Guinea (Provided Rio)
South Cameroun (relations between A. lugens and A. loennbergii)

A. kouamense

Area of Kinguélé in Gabon
Equatorial Guinea (Provided Rio)

A. poliaki

All the areas or the species is likely to be in relation to SPP (Tiko, Muyuka, northern slope of the Cameroun Mount...)
Surroundings of Limbé
Western slope of the Cameroun Mount

A. alpha

Equatorial Guinea (Provided Rio)
Area in the east of Libreville towards Kinguélé
South of the Komo river

A. lugens

Area of the Udders, Afan Essokié, catchment area of Ntem |
Equatorial Guinea (Provided Rio)