Moema wischmanni

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• An Elegant Addition to a Fish Room — Pterolebias wischmanni Liz Hutchings 181

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• friends, Rick Ivik and Dave Hemmerlein, After that first trip in 2013 I was thor - arrived from the States. We spent the night oughly “hooked” and longed to go back, in the Lima area and, the next day, flew but during the rainy season when I would, east to Puerto Maldonado, in the lowland hopefully, have a better chance to collect a rainforest close to the Bolivian border. wider variety of annual killifish. However, After arriving in Puerto Maldonado I put this plan on hold for a few years while we spent the next week collecting killifish my wife and I did some other traveling. and a variety of other species, including Then, in late 2015, I heard Michael Barber, Apistogramma and Corydorus , from the one of the new owners of Go Wild Peru, a streams and ponds in the region. I even nature tourism business located in Puerto managed to catch a small wolf fish, which Maldonado, speak about the flora and fau - then caught me as I lifted it out of the net. na, and in particular the fish, of the Madre My companions had some fun teasing me de Dios region. Michael announced at that over the “life threatening injury” and have time that a rainy season collecting trip was never let me forget it. Since, on that occa - being planned for February, 2016 and in - sion, we were collecting during the dry sea - dicated that there were still openings to son, the streams and ponds were easily ac - sign up for the trip. The next afternoon, cessible and, in some instances, the streams after a tour of my fish room, Michael and I were dry enough that streambeds were re - discussed the proposed trip and I decided duced to occasional small puddles. This to sign up and travel to Peru to participate. concentrated the fish so tightly that every While I was preparing for the trip, I re - dip of the net brought up a big catch with ceived word that the two other individuals a tremendous variety of species. After an I was going to be collecting with had exciting week of collecting we headed dropped out, leaving me as the only re - home, having had a great experience, and I maining guest. Michael said that he was had acquired a much greater appreciation fine with that and so, on Friday, February only regret was that we caught only one Lima in the evening. I spent the night in trio of annual killifish, Moema wischmanni Lima and the next day boarded a Peruvian

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