Re: [RML] M.Herbertaxelrodi

Frex (frex at macrae.com.au)
Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:44:37 +1000

At 10:23 PM 4/14/97 -0700, Peter U. wrote:
>On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Frex wrote:
>
>> >I agree that someone
>> >should look into this kind of problem. Screw the rainbows though,
>> >Mogurnda is a much bigger mess. The sad part is that no one cares a rats
>> >about them compared to stupid rainbows. :-)
>>
>> Like the Flinders Ranges Whatever Gudgeon, which seems to have been
>> consigned to the pages of history as a kept species now that it doesn't have
>> seperate species status? :)
>
>What do you mean by this? It is being considered a different species, it
>just hasn't been described and probably won't be for a long time as no
>one will ever look at it and have the balls to put a name on it.

Peter, when we used to call them "M. balcoonensis", people kept them... now
they are officially undescribed, nobody seems to keep them... just an
observation, is all, and I would say it was more snobbery on the part of
hobbyists than any laxity on the part of the scientific community...

Regards, Andrew
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