Re: [RML] Eachamensis update
Bruce Hansen (bhansen at ozemail.com.au)
Thu, 8 May 1997 06:47:44 +1000
> From: Adrian R. Tappin <atappin at ecn.net.au>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Eachamensis update
> Perhaps we should just keep Gudgeons & Gobies,
> then we would all know what we have got, wouldn't we ;-)
>
> When you think about it we don't really know a lot about our freshwater
fishes.
>
We are gradually getting to know more - and then what do we realise? That
there is even more to find out than we ever imagined ! Daunting isn't it?
Even the Goby people (ask Helen) aren't always sure what we have. At least
there are a few decent books ( in the English language) on Rainbowfish now
but try to get something on Gobies ------
Many of the available aquarium books are perpetuating the Goby equivalents
of the old Australian Rainbowfish/melanotaenia nigrans misnomer and we
don't have decent references generally available to help sort it all out.
Hopefully when Helen completes her current "magnum opus" some of the
"holes" will be filled :-)
Bruce Hansen