International Rainbow Fish Society

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International Rainbow
Fish Society (IRG)
purpose scientific and aquarium hobby with Australian / oceanic freshwater fish
Chair: Harro Hieronimus (President)
Establishment date: June 7, 1986
Number of members: > 500
Seat : Dusseldorf
Website: www.irg-online.de

The International Society for Rainbow Fish (IRG) is an association whose members deal with the Australian-oceanic representatives of freshwater fish, mainly rainbow fish, from an aquaristic and scientific perspective . A particular aim of the IRG is to contribute to the conservation of the species and the appropriate keeping and rearing of these fish. The association, based in Düsseldorf, was founded on June 7, 1986 on the initiative of Harro Hieronimus . The IRG is a member of the Federal Association for Professional Nature and Species Protection (BNA).

The approximately 500 members come mainly from Europe. Six regional groups have been organized within Germany, as well as country groups in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

magazine

Title of the German edition 2-2015 of the Regenbogenfisch

Since 1986, the association has published the association magazine Regenbogenfisch (currently issues in German and Dutch) four times a year with specialist articles and occasional thematic special issues.

activities

The members meet in June alternately in Germany and in another European country for an annual meeting lasting several days. It serves the intensive exchange between hobby and science through specialist lectures and an international fish exchange.

In addition to the publication of specialist books and articles in specialist aquarium magazines, members of the IRG also document the habitats of fish in nature, discover new species and participate in their scientific description and imports. They work with other organizations such as the Australia New Guinea Fishes Association (ANGFA) and ichthyologists . For example, tissue samples from fish kept in aquariums are made available for genetic studies on the diversity of rainbow fish.

Members are involved in conserving the Eachamsee rainbow fish ( Melanotaenia eachamensis ), which is extinct in nature . This endemic from the Australian Lake Eacham in northern Queensland was only discovered in 1978, described scientifically in 1982 and was eradicated by exposed for fishing in the lake other species already 1989th The habitat for Melanotaenia eachamensis can no longer be regained. Worldwide the species is phenotypically preserved by institutions and aficionados.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statutes of the IRG
  2. ↑ www.irg-nord.de. Retrieved May 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ www.regenboogvissen.be. Retrieved May 13, 2013 .
  4. ↑ www.irg-nederland.nl. Retrieved May 13, 2013 .
  5. ↑ www.irg-schweiz.ch. Retrieved May 13, 2013 .
  6. ^ IRG publications. Retrieved May 4, 2016 ( ISSN  0935-6460 ).
  7. ^ Johannes Graf: The genus Glossolepis . Nature and Science, Solingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-936616-64-4 .
  8. ^ JA Graf, F. Herder, RK Hadiaty: A new species of rainbowfish (Melanotaeniidae), Melanotaenia garylangei, from Western New Guinea (Papua Province, Indonesia) . In: Fishes of Sahul . tape 29 , no. 2 , 2015, p. 870-881 .
  9. ↑ www.angfa.org.au. Retrieved May 13, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Kadarusman et al .: Extensive Cryptic diversity in Indo-Australian Rainbowfishes Revealed by DNA barcoding . Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference. University of Adelaide. November 28 - December 3, 2011. Lecture ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf; 2.5 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dnabarcodes2011.org
  11. ^ Unmack, Allen, Johnson: Phylogeny and biogeography of rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae) from Australia and New Guinea . In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . tape 67 , 2013, p. 15-27 .
  12. ↑ Melanotaenia eachamensis on RAINBOWFISH