International Labyrinth Fish Community

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International
Labyrinth
Fish Association (IGL)
International Labyrinth Fish Association IGL Logo.jpg
purpose Care, reproduction, breeding and scientific research of the labyrinth fish and related groups of fish
Chair: Bruno Urbanski, President
Establishment date: January 27, 1979
Number of members: about 400
Seat : Duisburg
Website: Homepage of the IGL

The International Association for Labyrinth Fish (IGL) is an association for the care, reproduction, breeding and scientific research of the labyrinth fish (Anabantoidei). Members are lay people and scientists interested in labyrinth fish.

The aquarium and scientific knowledge about the family of the labyrinth fish are supplemented and published. Another goal is to preserve the biodiversity for the aquarium hobby and in nature. Nature, species and animal protection are part of the statutes. Numerous members also deal with breeding forms, in particular with the high breeding of the veil fighter. The IGL was founded on January 27, 1979 on the initiative of Werner Studer in Pratteln as an association under Swiss law. Today's seat of the association is Heidelberg .

The IGL now also looks after other perch-like and atmospheric air-breathing fish families and maintains several working groups:

The largest transnational association of aquarium enthusiasts with around 400 members is divided into regional groups and is represented in France by an independent sister association (CIL-France). A cooperation agreement exists with the British "Anabantoid Association of Great Britain (AAGB)". The IGL has members all over Europe, the USA and Asia.

activities

  • Every year the community organizes international spring and autumn conferences lasting several days at different locations with lecture programs, excursions and stock exchanges.
  • Since it was founded, the IGL has published the membership magazine Der Makropode ( ISSN  0937-177X ), which is currently published four times a year . In this journal, not only care and breeding reports appear, but also works on the natural habitats and systematics of labyrinth fish, articles on fish health, on scientific research as well as on the protection of species, nature and animals.
  • IGL members are authors of specialist journals and of popular and scientific specialist literature beyond the limits of the association.
  • The IGL is co-author of the "Expert opinion on the requirements for the keeping of ornamental fish which should at least be complied with (as of December 30, 1998)" which regulates the implementation of the Animal Welfare Act in this area .
  • At the beginning of the 1990s, IGL, in cooperation with the Cologne Aquarium am Zoo, founded the first international stud book for an endangered fish, the wine-red fighting fish Betta coccina from the Malay Peninsula. The stud book was discontinued in 2006 after it became clear that it was only possible to maintain the pure phenotype as part of this project.
  • The IGL was the initiator and one of the co-organizers of the so far only symposium “Endangered Freshwater Fish of Tropical Ecosystems”, held under the patronage of the limnologist Harald Sioli from March 9th to 12th, 1995 in the Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig , Bonn, as an international workshop lasting several days was aligned with exhibition. At this symposium, the South African ichthyologist Jim Cambray , who was invited by the IGL, presented his conservation breeding program for the endangered Cape bushfish Sandelia bainsii to an international audience for the first time. This project at the Albany Museum in Grahamstown was funded by the IGL.
  • In 2006 IGL supported the Barcode of Life project .
  • The “Parosphromenus Project” launched in 2005 by Peter Finke and Martin Hallmann to research and preserve endangered licorice gouramis was initiated by the IGL working group of licorice gouramis.
  • The knowledge gathered in the member's magazine about labyrinth fish species imported and / or discovered by members, their behavior and data from their natural habitats flow into scientific theses, popular scientific literature, species descriptions and taxonomic works, in which it is cited. IGL members regularly provide labyrinth fish for research purposes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Query of the joint register portal of the federal states , entry at Duisburg District Court VR 5399 from November 14, 2014
  2. ^ Statutes of the IGL ( Memento of April 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Michael Kokoschka: Labyrinth fish. Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8001-7431-6
  4. ↑ Donoso-Büchner, Schmidt: Your hobby fighting fish. Wild forms . Bede Verlag, 1999, ISBN 978-3-933646-09-5
  5. ↑ Lukas Rüber, Ralf Britz, Rafael Zardoya: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Diversification of Labyrinth Fishes (Perciformes: Anabantoidei). In: Syst. Biol. 55 (3) 2006, pp. 374-397. ISSN  1063-5157 doi: 10.1080 / 10635150500541664
  6. ↑ bmelv.de ( Memento from May 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Stud book Betta coccina is ended ( Memento from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Sandelia bainsii in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2007 Posted by: J. Cambray, 2007. Accessed May 17, 2013.
  9. ↑ Sandelia project in Der Makropod 2007 ( Memento from April 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Homepage of Barcode of Life ( Memento from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Presentation of the Paro project (PDF; 522 kB)
  12. ^ Paro project
  13. ↑ Jürgen Schmidt: Comparative studies on the reproductive behavior of the Betta species (Blontiidae, Anabantoidei) . Publishing house Natur + Wissenschaft, Solingen 1996.
  14. ↑ Hans-Joachim Paepke: The paradise fish . Westarp Sciences, 1994
  15. ^ Kai-Erik Witte, Jürgen Schmidt (): Betta brownorum, a new species of anabantoids (Teleostei: Belontiidae) from northwestern Borneo, with a key to the genus . In: Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters , 1992, 2 (4)
  16. ↑ J. Vierke: Parosphromenus filamentosus n.sp. from SO Borneo (Pisces: Belontiidae) . In: Senckenbergiana Biologica , 61, 1981, pp. 363-367
  17. ^ I. Schindler, J. Töpfer: On the type species of Trichopodus (Teleostei: Perciformes: Osphronemidae) . In: Vertebrate Zoology , 59 (1), 2009