DasArm_at_aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/11/00 11:12:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> rheopresbe_at_hotmail.com writes:
>
> << Glad to hear the lampreys are doing well... although does that mean that
> we're going to have to change the name of the organization to NANFFLVA
> (North American Native Fishes and Fish-Like Vertebrate Association)?
> >>
> I always used to think that lampreys were technically fish (albeit primitive
> as hell ). So what disqualifies this from this category? Is it their lack of
> actual backbone vertebrae substituted by cartilage? Isn't their brain
> unproteced by an actual skull? And/or (less likely to me) is it because they
> are jawless?
>
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