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RE: Collection codes,Common names,TLA's
Doug,
I've done all I can: when their enforcement arm (Cichlidators) come to
visit, you can harken back to this glib and flippant
day and remember, "I told you so." (another grin)
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Karpa-Wilson [mailto:dkarpawi at indiana_edu]
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 3:30 PM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: Collection codes,Common names,TLA's
Well,
perhaps the Cichlidistas are cleverer than I gave them credit for ;-). So
beyond Jack Dempsey's, convicts, Rams, Oscars, electric blues or whatever,
mostly they go by scientific names? Could it be that cichlids are just
more appealing to the average fishkeeper than killies? <gasp!>
Doug
>Doug Karpa-Wilson wrote:
>>
>> It occurs to me that most cichlids have no common name, and yet
cichlidiots
>> seem to proliferate like duckweed. I'm not quite sure why that is, but
>> perhaps someone with more contact with it than I can explain? Is it just
>> that the common ones do (rather a lot of those) so that entry happens via
>> common named fish from big breeders and then folks later move on to the
>> non-common named ones?
>>
>> Doug
>>
>Doug,
>Interestingly, there are common names in cichlid terms, only in general,
>they are in Latin. I'm a big fan of Apistogramma, a genus that makes
>most killie groupings look very clearly defined indeed. What are the
>popular names for the common ones? Agassizii are called "agas" or
>"aggies", Cacatuoides are unfortunately "cacas" and so on. No one seems
>to complain, and everyone involved seems to know what's going on with
>the fish. Incidentally, they sell well in stores too.
>Well, gotta go feed the taenies and the agas, followed soon after by the
>24/80 ogos...
>-Gary Elson
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