Re: NANFA-- research help

Bruce Stallsmith (fundulus_at_hotmail.com)
Sun, 14 Nov 1999 14:06:49 EST

Rather than looking at range maps _per se_, you could consult various museum
fish collections to see if they have collections from various areas. You can
access about 8 of the larger North American collections on line through a
searchable database called FishGopher. One way to access this is through the
web site of the Ichthyology department at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
at Harvard, which URL is (if I remember correctly) /mcz.harvard.edu or,
alternatively, through /oeb.harvard.edu and follow links. You can search
FishGopher for genus, species, collector, and location. And I'm sure there
are other, easier, access ramps...

--Bruce Stallsmith

>If you were an interested amateur with no contacts in the scientific
>community, where would you start looking for info on this population?
>Thanks,
>Gary Elson
>Verdun, Quebec
>

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