. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Etymology. Aphyosemion musafirii is named after Dr. Jean Musafiri (Ubundu, Democratic Republic of Congo), coordinator for the national tuberculosis and leprosy con- trol programme in the "Province Orientale Occidentale", the huge forest area around Kisangani. The name Musafiri means "traveller" in Swahili. Indeed, he travels around the area under very difficult circumstances, covering enor- mous distances by jeep, motorised canoe or small motor- cycle. Dr. Musafiri was bom in Ubundu and has always stayed in the province to help his peopl
. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. Etymology. Aphyosemion musafirii is named after Dr. Jean Musafiri (Ubundu, Democratic Republic of Congo), coordinator for the national tuberculosis and leprosy con- trol programme in the "Province Orientale Occidentale", the huge forest area around Kisangani. The name Musafiri means "traveller" in Swahili. Indeed, he travels around the area under very difficult circumstances, covering enor- mous distances by jeep, motorised canoe or small motor- cycle. Dr. Musafiri was bom in Ubundu and has always stayed in the province to help his people, in spite of the very difficult living conditions and the atrocities of the war in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He made it possible that the type material of A musafirii and a new species of Fenerbahce (Sonnenberg, Woeltjes & Van der Zee, submitted) could be collected by A. Van Deun (In-. Fig. 7. Aphyosemion castaneum, 11 km west of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo, not preserved. Photo: H. Ott. Fig. 8. Aphyosemion castaneum, Wani Rukula, 65 km south- east of Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. Photo: H. Ott. stitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp) at the occasion of an external evaluation visit of the tuberculosis/leprosy pro- gramme. DNA analyses. The resulting sequence alignment has a final length of 760 bp, the base composition shows the, for mitochondrial sequences typical, A/T bias (Zhang & Hewitt, 1996). In two sequences (RSI747 and RSI521), up to 13 N were introduced at the start of the alignment for equal sequence length. We found 192 variable and 130 phylogenetic informative positions. The DNA fragment translates into 253 amino acids, of which 27 are variable and 15 phylogenetic informative, and contains no unex- pected stop codon. Uncorrected pairwise distances be- Bonn zoological Bulletin 60 (1): 73-87 ©ZFMK. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability -
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