Re: NANFA-L-- Moribund fish & Life Outside

Bruce Stallsmith (fundulus at hotmail.com)
Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:41:21 -0400

No. Different species concepts apply to different organisms. And some people
set up criteria to complicate the process. It sure ain't meaningless.

--Bruce Stallsmith
along the Tennessee
Huntsville, AL, US of A

>From: Mysteryman <bestfish at alaweb.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l at nanfa.org
>To: nanfa-l at nanfa.org
>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Moribund fish & Life Outside
>Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:31:10 -0700
>
>So, basically, what it comes down to is that "species" is a word that, like
>the word "fish," everyone knows the meaning of yet can't define because it
>is technically meaningless?
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