Re: NANFA-L-- mudminnow fry

Bob Muller (michiganfish-in-wideopenwest.com)
Fri, 13 May 2005 16:26:16 -0400

That was the first impression but mudminnows are not from the group that
have the back bone going into the upper tail lobe. I put the fish under my
microscope to look-in-the tail. On larva fish the dorsal, tail and anal fin
start out as a fleshy membrane that wraps around the end of the fish and
then divide and get fin rays. On the mudminnow the back bone is like a
spike sticking beyond the tail fin. The lower tail fin is getting rays but
the upper still looks like a membrane. Can any of the ichthyologists tell
me what I am seeing.
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>
> Bob,
> Is it like the tail fin of a young longnose gar?
> Mike Lucas
>
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