Re: How 'bout that! /Taxonomical changes

["Cory and Susanne Williamson" <webwill@infinet.net>]

My wife Susanne is quite taken by the name "little earth eater"-  she takes
great pleasure explaining to our guests what causes the little bomb craters
in our plant tank and how the craters relate to the Genus name. ( I like the
name too --   I think it is more apt than 'butterfly'.  But who's keeping
score :)

Cory Williamson

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Colin Gorton" <colingorton@hotmail.com>
To: <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Sent: May 4, 2000 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: How 'bout that! /Taxonomical changes


> You missed out the fact that geo means earth and phagus means eater. We
> therefore have 'little earth eater' i.e they move the substrate around as
> part of their behaviour. Hence we also have the geophagus (note: no micro)
> which are bigger fish with the same interesting excavatorial behaviour.
> I think this is all pretty academic because pretty soon modern science is
> going to catch up with the fish-keeping world and _all_ fish taxonomy is
> going to be re-organised because we'll be doing genetic fingerprinting of
> them and we'll be able to have a definitive evaluation. This is happening
in
> the plant world and is causing all sorts of surprises. Guess which plant
is
> most closely related to the Chinese Lotus? Give up? The London Plain
> (Plane?) tree.lol!
> Nice opportunity to have a purely academic debate though;-)
> Colin
>
>
> >From: Fredrik Ljungberg <Fredrik.Ljungberg@saab.se>
> >Reply-To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
> >To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
> >Subject: Re: How 'bout that!
> >Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 16:22:36 +0200
> >
> >Mike & Diane Wise wrote:
> > >
> > > Hot Damn! But I still prefer Papiliochromis.
> > >
> > > Mike Wise
> > >
> >
> >I agree 100%. Papiliochromis is beautiful,
> >Mikrogeophagus/Microgeophagus isn't.
> >
> >For those who don't know, Papilion is latin
> >for butterfly and chromis is often used
> >for cichlids. I think it comes from chromidae
> >which should mean something like colours/coloured.
> >= Butterfly cichlid (instead of
> >Mikrogeophagus = small geophagus)
> >
> >Fredrik L.
> >
> >
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