Re: NANFA-- fish id

Irate Mormon (archimed_at_netdoor.com)
Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:51:33 -0600

I have only ever seen two delhezi - once in a small LFS in Tallahassee, FL (they called them "Bikers" a bastardization of Bichir) -
which I purchased - and a HUGE one in an old Pet Shop in New Jersey.

On 7 Mar 2003 at 23:50, R. W. Wolff wrote:

> I have not heard of the subspecie of senegulus. In my references I
> cannot find a fish that closely resembles senegulus , but with a round
> tail. This said, there is a couple of good photographs in one book . "
> Jurassic Fishes, by Huruto Kodera and others" of weeksi where one has
> a pointed and the other round. These are pictures though, and often
> pictures can show something that is not there.
>
> Polypterus are awesome fish. The African bowfin I dubbed them. Where
> do you
> get delhezi? I have only seen senegulus ( and senegulus labeled
> palmas) and ornatipinnus.
>
> Ray
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Prost,

Martin
Jackson, MS

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