Re: Hubers Killidata (correction)

["William Vannerson" <William_Vannerson at ama-assn_org>]

>>PS. I join with Bill and others in wishing the scientists would include in their papers our location codes. It would take little effort for them to add a phrase like, "...currently distributed among hobby aquarists with the location code "ZYX 72/7." It could do wonders to clarify things for us, as to which particular fish they are actually talking about.<<

Since the location codes have proven valuable over time to differentiate fishes that may later prove to be different species or subspecies, it would seem prudent for scientific literature to consider them, even though it's not part of the binomial classification system.  Perhaps as more genetic evaluations are done in identifying species and their family relationships, some type of comprimise will work its way out.

I know that the collection codes are used to help preserve distinct species.  Since many killies are so physically similar, it's often impossible to tell if two fish from the same species but different locations will produce viable offspring.  But at what pointy, if any, is it no longer neccessary to maintain the distinct populations?  Is it possibe that at some point in time that DNA analysis will confirm that "Location A" and "Location B" are truly the same identical species and can then be "mixed?"

Just curious.

The fluidity of renaming species is facinating.  I'm somewhat surprised that we're still called Homo sapiens.  You would have thought that someone would have disputed it by now, just for the sake of renaming the species (just kidding).


Bill Vannerson
McHenry, IL
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/william_vannerson

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