I appreciate all the color in local names, and I have been known to
refer to bowfin by one of its regional appelations of "cypress trout."
However, for clarity of communication, scientific names or the names
approved by the AFS-ASIH Committee on Common Names should be used when
possible.
Thanks, Dave
David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
"Where are we going?" "I don't know, are we there yet?"
----- Original Message -----
From: geoffrey kimber <gkimber2-in-gmail.com>
Date: Monday, January 23, 2006 12:30 pm
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- RE: Collecting native fish in Arkansas for sale
> re: local names-
>
> in the southwest, 'zebra minnows' refers to fundulus zebrinus
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