Re: Popondetta rainbowfish
drews at webgate.net
Sat, 23 Nov 1996 23:34:26 -0500
Phil Farrel wrote >I think the reason that "Popondicthys" was dropped is it is
also the name of
an insect genus. As the binomial system indicates, a beetle and a
rainbowfish are not that closely related as to warrent inclusion in the same
genus and since the beetle was named first, it keeps the name <
Actually Phil the beetle has the name POPONDETTA and that's why the change to
POPONDICTHYS. But even the Popondicthys seems now to have been dropped. Allen's
new book simply refers to them as Pseudomugil Furcatus. There was some
discussion about whether they were sufficiently different from other
pseudomugils to warrant their own genus. Apparently not.
Chris