Mamou, male. Photo courtesy of Vasco Gomez - See website.

Mamou, female. Photo courtesy of Vasco Gomez - See website.

After Alain Guignard of Paris who made several collecting trips to Africa.

Romand Dr.R. 26th June 1981

Description d'une nouveau Roloffia de Guineé: Roloffia guignardi nov. spec.(Pisces, Cyprinodontidae).

Revue Française d'Aquariologie 8 (1): 1-6, figures & map.

5.5 - 6 cm.

• D=12-14, A=15-17, D/A = +3-5, ll=33-36 (Romand)
• D = 10-14, A = 13-17, ll = 27-36 (+2-3)(Wildekamp)

n = 20, A = 22 (Romand 1981)

liberiensis

• Haplochilus senegalensis (non Steindachneri 1870) Pellegrin 1911
• Haplochilus liberiensis (non Boulenger 1908) Pellegrin 1935
• Aphyosemion liberiensis (non Boulenger 1908) Daget 1960
• Aphyosemion roloffi (non Roloff 1936) Daget 1962
• Roloffia nov.spec. Romand et al. 1979
• Roloffia guignardi Romand 1981
• Aphyosemion guignardi (Romand 1982)
• Roloffia banforensis Seegers 1982
• Aphyosemion nigrifluvi Romand 1982
• Roloffia nigrifluvi Bitter 1984
• Aphyosemion banforense Lazara 1984

Populations

• Bafing River (Mamou)
• Banfora (Burkina Faso)
• Fabess
• Gaoual (Guineé)
• Gubi
• Kaba
• Kakoni
• Kampant
• Kindo
• Kollé
• Konkouré
• Kouaia (Kouraia? An umlout on the 'i' ( ï ) has been seen which should be disregarded.
• Kowanta (Guineé)
• Labé (central Guinea)
• Mali
• Mamou (Guineé)
• Safakuré River
• Sikasso
• Sogoroya
• Sougouéta (Guineé)
• Télimélé
• GM 97 / 13 - Gubi

Gaoual - Collected by Busch & Wiese in 1993 (SL 93 code).

Labé - Collected by Romand et al in 1981. Another form from this collection was distributed as Labé Area.
This was the type locality. They were caught in a small water course 2-3 metres wide & 0·1 - 1 metre deep. The exact location is 31 km from Labé in the direction of Gaoual.
Also collected on the road from Labé to Gaoual 21 km from Labé in a small stream 1-4metres wide with a maximum depth of ·5 metres depth.

Mali - This name circulated in the early 1980's. It is thought Romand et al collected it in 1981 but I can find no evidence to support this.

Mamou - Collected by Busch & Wiese in 1993 (SL 93 code).

Sougueta - Collected by Busch & Wiese in 1993 (SL 93 code).

Telimé - These were collected from a river in flood 25 km from Pita on the road to Telimé.

31 kms from Labé towards Gaoual, central Guinea. The type location was a small stream 2-3 metres wide & up to 1 metre deep. Other specimens were later collected in two other similar biotopes.

Restricted to the Fouta Djalon area, more precisely, the upper slopes of the basin of the Konkoure, Kolente & Labé region in the direction of Telime between Mamou & Kindia near Sougouéta, Guineé. Also found in the upper Gambia River drainage, southeastern Senegal.

Map I put together in 1983 to illustrate an article.

Collected at 1000 metres above sea level in a small water course 2-3 metres wide & 0.1 - 1.0 metre deep.

They have been collected in quiet brooks, swamps & small streams with aquatic plants.

Also collected in a river in flood 25 kms from Pita on the road to Telime, & in a stream 1-4 metres wide, maximum depth .5 metre 21 kms from Labé on the road to Gaoual. Water analysis - water temperature 25-30'C, pH 6.6 - 7.0, DH 5. Sympatric sp.; Hemichromis bimaculatus, Tilapia zilli & various barbs including Barbus cadenati & B.guineensis.

Discovered by Romand, Guignard & Schmitt in 1979 in the Fouta Djalon region of Guineé. Romand described the specimens taken from Labe & Souguéta.

In 1982 Seegers described Roloffia banforensis which were collected 15 km north of Banfora & 85 km south of Bobo Dioulasso. This was in the Comoe River drainage system).

Also in 1982 Romand described Aphyosemion nigrifluvi, collected 18 km from Mamou towards Dalaba & 3 km from the Dalaba - Mamou - Faculty of Agronomy junction, northern Guinea. This was a tributary of the Bafing River.

In the early 1980's they were in BKA auctions as Roloffia banforense. These fish had a dark green colour to the body.

An easy species to breed. Eggs laid in mops/peat fibre take 18 - 21 days to water incubate. Parent fish are reportedly not cannibalistic towards eggs & fry. Fry are small. Sexual maturity is attained at around 6 months..

The first 'banforensis' I saw was in a northwest auction in the BKA. These were overall green coloured in the body with little colouration in the unpaired fins. Not a pretty form which sealed their fate in coming years of BKA maintenance.