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Subject: RE: Killifish threat
Author: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au at INTERNET-MAIL
Date: 24/9/96 7:55 AM
From: peter.unmack at ASU.Edu[SMTP:peter.unmack at ASU.Edu]
Sent: Monday, 23 September 1996 22:52
<< I just picked up my first Aphanius
species, anatolae (not sure yet which subspecies it is).>>
Sounds a bit like the Rainbowfish situation, if they don';t have a location
of origin attached at the time of acquisition how are you going to find out
Peter? Or do you have a a set of reference pictures a bit like the ANGFA
Trifasciata ones. I assume the "Killienuts" are as keen as we are to try to
"know your stream and keep "em clean!"
<< lets turn this into a pupfish
rainbowfish list and send Andrew's other killifish list broke!]>>
Somehow I don't see a "Pupfish List" comprised of mainly Australians (most
of whom have never seen a live pupfish, and are never likely to) as being a
threat to any other list :-)
But then ACN list has gone somewhat moribund since the advent of the RML
and I can only think of one person to blame for that - yes, Adrian Tappin.
Since he did that number on Les Kauffman ( I yield, Adrian!) the fire has
died somewhat :-)
Besides all that Peter, I think it is "dirty pool" ( do you like that
aquatic analogy ?) to play on the moderaptor's well-known affection for
mudfish from foreign climes and their obvious threat to our beloved
natives. I am surprised that you haven't raised the obvious ( perhaps not
so obvious if I follow my usual tack) risk to our own " mudfish" such as
Lepidogalaxias salamandroides ( which has it's own home page on the net)
and Galaxias cleaveri. Perhaps some of the others in this group have some
capacity to aestivate too as a survival mechanism in hard times ( e.g. G.
olidus) .
Any way I am sure that Andrew, ever-tolerant as we know him to be, is quite
able to decide whether the thread belongs or not, so see if you can "sell
us a pup(fish)".
Bruce Hansen
ANGFA