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TLAs

Doug,
If you mean you'll compile a list of three letter codes already in use, 
fine.  If you mean that you are going to compile and fill in the missing 
blanks, I would only caution you that you may be destined to cause more 
confusion than clarification.  Scheel has a list of codes in his book.  To 
my knowledge this was the begining of the three letter codes.  Then about 
3-4 years ago as Richard Sexton was working on his photos of killies he made 
up codes for those species that were not in Scheel's list.  About the same 
time and since, some study groups have taken to assigning codes to species 
in their field of study that were named after Scheel.  This further points 
out the folly of using TLAs.  There is no central authority that can modify 
and keep up to date on changes.  Perhaps it would be best for all of us to 
join Wright's "Stomp out TLAs" Club.

Joe Weber

Be nice to your kids.
They are going to choose your nursing home.

>It would at least be good if we had an updated set of generic
>abbreviations, to speed up "Fundulopanchax" or "Scriptaphyosemion"  I'll
>get right on it  :-)  Then I'll post them and you guys can pick it apart
>then.
>

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