Hi Chris,

Many thanks for this and my apologies for being such a hassle for you over the past times.

The list looks definitive to me, I cannot remember any other species being caught/recorded and have not been able to turn up any others on the Internet searches I have done.

Ref their status - at the time (early 1960s to early 70s) the livebearers, the Flag Fish and the cichlids were certainly breeding in the waters of the canal (along with Guppies by the thousands) judging from the ones I caught and sold to the pet shop in Widnes.  Now they are all extinct as Pilkington Glass Works which heated the water, which was used for cooling the glass making processes, is now merely a Museum with no industrial processes still in place - the waters are cold.

Hope that helps - shout if you need more.

Thanks once again.

Steve

Hi Steve

Just running through these and have made the following list:

Jordanella floridae Goode & Bean, 1879
American Flag Fish
Pterophyllum altum Pellegrin, 1903
Angel Fish
Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum (Günther, 1867)
Convict Cichlid
Poecilia salvatoris Regan, 1907
Liberty Molly
Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852)
Mozambique Mouthbrooder
Astronotus ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831)
Oscar
Xiphophorus maculatus (Günther, 1866)
Platy
Xiphophorus hellerii Heckel, 1848
Swordtail
Tilapia galilaea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tilapia mariae Boulenger, 1899
Tilapia zilla = Tilapia zillii (Gervais, 1848)

But I can't find "Tilapia peacock" anywhere - is it known by another name?

Thanks
Chris R.

No worries Steve - here are my shorthand notes on all the operations that needed doing:

org par NBNORG0000029124
Cyprinodontinae Wagner, 1828
tvk NHMSYS0021202901
Jordanella Goode & Bean, 1879
tvk NHMSYS0021202907
Jordanella floridae Goode & Bean, 1879
tvk NHMSYS0021202913
=American Flag Fish
tvk NHMSYS0021202919

org par NBNORG0000061572
Cichlinae Bonaparte, 1835    NBNORG0000125959
tvk NHMSYS0021202925
Pterophyllum Heckel, 1840
tvk NHMSYS0021202931
Pterophyllum altum Pellegrin, 1903
tvk NHMSYS0021202937
=Angel Fish
tvk NHMSYS0021202943

org par Cichlinae (above)
Amatitlania Schmitter-Soto, 2007
tvk NHMSYS0021202949
Amatitlania nigrofasciata (Günther, 1867)
tvk NHMSYS0021202955
=Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum (Günther, 1867)
tvk NHMSYS0021202961
=Convict Cichlid
tvk NHMSYS0021202967

org par NBNORG0000125353
Poeciliinae Bonaparte, 1831
tvk NHMSYS0021202973
Poecilia Bloch & Schneider, 1801
tvk NHMSYS0021202979
Poecilia salvatoris Regan, 1907
tvk NHMSYS0021202985
=Liberty Molly
tvk NHMSYS0021202991

reparent NBNORG0000115988 (guppy) on genus Peocilia NBNORG0000125965

org par NBNORG0000061630 Pseudocrenilabrinae (unred unorphan) mark non-native
Oreochromis Günther, 1889
tvk NHMSYS0021202997
Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852)
tvk NHMSYS0021203003
=Mozambique Mouthbrooder
tvk NHMSYS0021203009

org par Cichlinae (above)
Astronotus Swainson, 1839
tvk NHMSYS0021203015
Astronotus ocellatus (Agassiz, 1831)
tvk NHMSYS0021203021
=Oscar
tvk NHMSYS0021203027

org par Poeciliinae (above)
Xiphophorus Heckel, 1848
tvk NHMSYS0021203033
Xiphophorus maculatus (Günther, 1866)
tvk NHMSYS0021203039
=Platy
tvk NHMSYS0021203045
Xiphophorus hellerii Heckel, 1848
tvk NHMSYS0021203051
=Swordtail
tvk NHMSYS0021203057

org par NBNORG0000061657
Tilapia galilaea (Linnaeus, 1758)
tvk NHMSYS0021203063
Tilapia mariae Boulenger, 1899
tvk NHMSYS0021203069

As you can see, the foreign stuff always needs higher ranks to be added too so it gets a bit messy ;)

Chris R.