Re[2]: defects in gobies etc
GWLANG at ccmail.monsanto.com
Sat, 8 Jun 1996 09:02:40 -0500
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Since Peter has been over in the States for the last few years maybe he has met
with someone that he can recommend that could possibly describe these fish for
you. The Killifish people ran into a similiar problem with their supposed
nomenclature person who was given a treasuretrove of Cynolebias caught by a
very famous amateur fish collector. The scientist sat on them for several years
until finally someone else went into the area, collected the fish and did the
work up. By any chance Bruce was it merely an amateur that collected the fish?
NIH (not invented here) appears to work not only in the biochemisty field but
also the scientific one as well.
Gary Lange
Having gotten that off my chest I feel a lot better. I don't mean to offend
anybody by directing criticism personally ( except to you Peter :-) :-)) but
we amateur collectors and enthusiasts do see every little different fish as
special. It seems incongruous that some of the scientists are keen to analyse
existing species with electrophoresis, DNA etc etc and try to split them into a
myriad of species that can only be differentiated in the field by a distribution
map of the watershed while others are seemingly "bent" the other way.
I guess it is "all part of the rich tapestry".
Bruce Hansen ANGFA