Re: [Killietalk] Re: Re: Sanctioned naming conventions? Proposal

[Tony Terceira <terceira at ride_ri.net>]

One of the guiding principles that prompted  Charlie Nunziata and I to 
produce CD's of images was to provide a reference (pictorial) of what 
specific fishes looked like at a given point in time.

        The gardneri album represents populations that were available 
early -- when they first began appearing in the hobby.  Our thought was 
that most of the populations that I photographed had just began to appear, 
and the probability of them being mixed populations was minimized.

        The new Killifish Photo Source Book Vol I is a collection of 30 
years of killies, each one with the date of the photograph, and the 
Current  nomenclature. The 144 species again represent a visual record of 
specific killies.

        We continue with this process precisely to provide a historic 
perspective and visual representation of killies   to help with the 
identification process.

        The more tools we have available, hopefully the more opportunities 
available to try to keep the species name as accurate and stable as 
possible.  I am sure we can not be 100% successful, but to not try is to 
lose an opportunity to preserve  a diversified group of fish for other to 
enjoy.

Tony


Tony Terceira
Scituate, Rhode Island

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