Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Farmer needs native marine ID help :)
From: Bruce Stallsmith (fundulus-in-hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2004 - 13:23:32 CDT
Yeah, female similis can be surprisingly large. The Key West population is
arguably a different species in some peoples' eyes, partially because of
larger size from what I've seen.
--Bruce Stallsmith
Tennessee River
Huntsville, AL, US of A
>From: "Todd Crail" <farmertodd-in-buckeye-express.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Farmer needs native marine ID help :)
>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:33:07 -0400
>
>Thanks so much guys...
>
>So I'm going to take a big guess and say these ID's are right as C.
>varigateus:
>http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/marine/May2004Keys/Sheepshead_Minnow01.jpg
>http://www.farmertodd.com/nanfa/marine/May2004Keys/Sheepshead_Minnow02.jpg
>
>Bruce, UNID/02 is a big honkin female similis? I guess that's the one I
>caught that all those randy males were chasing around. It didn't seem like
>it in the picture's order tho. It was further down the "stream". Maybe
>she
>just got tired of both her own species males and the biped mammal with the
>big green net and went downstream, only to be harrassed again :)
>
>Todd
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