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Bio Anton Lamboj

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anton Lamnoj was born 1956 and has been an aquarist since the age

of ten. Around 1980, he began to take a special interest in the cichlids

of West and Central Africa. This interests led, in 1988, to the beginning

of his academic education at the University of Vienna. Works for Master

degree and PhD were focussed on the systematics of West African

cichlids, which still is the main work and aquaristic interest too. Since

1998, he works as lecturer and associated scientist of the University of Vienna. His work combines morphological and anatomical methods as well as ethological studies and molecular methods.

 

As an aquarist, he is interested in many other groups of fish (“every fish is of interest and beautiful”), with some more detailed interest in Anabantoids (especially for the genera Betta and Parosphromenus) and West African Killies. Over the last years, the interest for some South American cichlids (Gymnogeophagus) increased too. 

Other hobbies done with passion is keeping orchids in a small greenhouse, gardening, keeping and breeding exotic birds and diving (all connected with a lot of photographing - what is some kind of passion too).

 

Over the years, Anton Lamboj has made 18 field/collecting trips to Africa, additionally several trips to South East Asia, Central America and South America. Recently, he holds about 45 tanks to breed and to study his fish, he has authored more then 300 papers (both academic and hobbist) in ten languages, including four books (numbers 5 and 6 are in print) and contributions to about 40 other books (aquaristic as well as scientific ones). Till now, he has described 3 genera and 19 species.

 

He is lecturer and associated scientist of the University of Vienna, also president of the Austrian Association of Aquarium and Terrarium Clubs (OEVVOE), vice president of the European Aquarium and Terrarium Ass. (EATA), editor for West African cichlids and Dwarf Cichlids for the DCG-Info (journal of the DCG = German Cichlid Association), chief editor of aqua-terra-austria (Austrian aquarium and terrarium journal), curator at the C.A.R.E.S. program and at Cichlid Room Companion and honorary member of the French Cichlid Ass. (AFC), the Hill Country Cichlid Club (HCCC), Texas and the Nordiska Ciklidsällskapet (NSC). 2011 he also was honoured for his international work for the hobby as a „Mastère fédéral d‘aquariophilie“ by the French Aquarium Federation FFA.

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