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Bruce.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Tappin <atappin at ecn.net.au>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Sunday, 21 February 1999 7:16
Subject: Re: [RML] new fish; brazil
>At 03:40 19/02/99 EST, tsuh yang chen wrote:
>
>>bruce, i can't remember what are the families in the order Atheriniformes.
i
>>wish i could locate a cheap copy of the joseph nelson "fishes of the
world"
>>book (it's selling for us$110 by mail order). i know there are
Bedotiidae,
>>Melanotaeniidae, Pseudomugilidae and Thelmateriniidae, which are the major
>>families in the trade. what family are the neotropical and saltwater
species?
>>i remember seining some slender "silversides" in waters off long island,
here
>>in ny, which were very similar in appearance to blue-eyes.
>
>This is a current list of Atheriniformes (I think)
>
>Bedotia
>Rheocles
>Cairnsichthys
>Chilatherina
>Glossolepis
>Iriatherina
>Melanotaenia
>Rhadinocentrus
>Kiunga
>Pseudomugil
>Alepidomus
>Austromenidia
>Craterocephalus
>Menidia
>Kaliptatherina
>Paratherina
>Telmatherina
>Tominanga
>
>Adrian.
>
> Adrian R. Tappin
> "Home of the Rainbowfish"
> http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm
>
>