--- Bruce Stallsmith <fundulus_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the picture, Klaus. There isn't a sharp
> physical difference
> between catenatus and stellifer; I think that
> stellifer can get bigger, is
> more robust and has a range defined on the northwest
> by the barrier of Sand
> Mountain in northeastern Alabama. The sharpest
> difference I have noticed
> between the two is that stellifers are _very_ prone
> to jumping, while I've
> never had a catenatus jump. I don't have the
> literature in front of me to
> point out diffs in scale count, etc., but in purely
> cladistic terms I would
> rate "tendency to jump" as a major character state.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
> >With all the confusion over catenatus and stellifer
> I
> >asked Jay to post a picture of a catenatus I took
> >...The quality is not up to my standards but its
> >adequate to see what this fish looks like.
> Hopefully
> >that Georgia fish isnt a bifax lol.
> >
> >
> >
> >Here they are:
> >http://www.nanfa.org/misc/fcatenatus_redriver.jpg
> >(reduced size)
> >
> >http://www.nanfa.org/misc/catenatus_redriver.jpg
> (full
> >size)
> >
> >
> >Thany you Jay for posting the pics.
> >
> >Klaus
>
>
>
>
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