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Elaine T wrote:
dfreas wrote:
Preemptive apology: I was very grumpy when I wrote this having recently
had a long long argument with a car salesman who would not take no for
an answer. Please forgive me for snapping at you when you were only
trying to be helpful.

-Daniel

Forgiven. I didn't mean to sound or be nitpicky - I was Google
searching because I was curious about your fish and found A. flavus in
Fishbase. Typing that synonym (better way of putting it) into Google
doubled the information I could find about the fish so I wanted to share
it with you.

It's rare to find consensus among fish taxonomists but I am
seening a general agreement that Bill Eschmeyers (NSF funded)
project to catalog fish, with a history of what names it's
ever been known by seems to be very verywell accepted. So
far I have not found an ichthyologist that does not defer to
this in terms of taxonomy

http://www.calacademy.org/research/i...catsearch.html

It's available as a book, CD and online. While it won't help you
identify a fish if you type in a name it'll tel you whether it's
current, a synonym or what.

I'm interestd in the goby because as a kid I bought an old
(east german) copy of Sterba's book and the picture in there
of Gobius lyricus make you think it's an utterly stunning fish;
using Bill's catalog it became clear that's not the right name
and once you have found the correct name for it you can easily
find pictures in google, which led to my finding Goldsteins
article that said in no uncertain terms "Sterba's picture
is wrong" and the real fish is ok - interesting for a North
American native, but not the exotica and interesting fish
Sterba hinted it. Butthis candy sriped goby is pretty cool.

I've never seen one, and that's sort of unusual :-)

Nice catch.

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