Re: NANFA-- RE: T-Shirts

Bruce Stallsmith (fundulus_at_hotmail.com)
Thu, 08 Mar 2001 16:46:05 -0500

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>Bob,
>
>That's Lagochila lacera, or Moxostoma lacerum as it's now called, the
>harelip
>sucker. Larry Page showed us one at the Illinois NANFA convention. Of
>course, it
>was in a jar. The poor fish went extinct around 1895 -- the frst North
>American
>fish to become extinct in modern times.
>
>Many more have since joined it.
>
>Chris Scharpf
>Baltimore
Actually, probably the second North American fish to go extinct after
Fundulus albolineatus, the whitelined killifish, last seen alive in 1888.
Hooray! Alabama won! Roll Tide!

--Bruce Stallsmith
Huntsville, AL, US of A

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