Re: TAN 00/01

["Ron Anderson" <yodeman at lycos_com>]

Thanks Barry.  I forgot to ask this in my previous email, but is this the same location and fish as sp.TAN 93/4?  I also saw that on the web. As you already guessed, I did get these from Dan, but they are not the pair(s?) that were in the show. I think mine were from the sale room. 

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Ron Anderson
Warwick, RI 
alt email: ron02886 at cox_net








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DATE: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 11:02:57
From: Barry Cooper <bjc3 at cornell_edu>
To: killietalk at aka_org
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>The correct name is N. sp. "Motukeri TAN 00-1". These are from fish 
>collected by myself, Brian Watters and Otto Schmidt in Tanzania in 2000. 
>They won best Notho at the NJ convention, entered by Dan Nielsen. He got 
>the fish from me. Perhaps you bought the winning pair.
>
>They are indeed a beautiful fish. They are from a widespread group of 
>Nothos that have not, at this point, been sufficiently studied to assign a 
>species name. There is quite a bit of variation in coloration from location 
>to location, although I'm sure they are all of the same species. This is 
>another of those fish that demonstrate that it is important to keep 
>localities separate. N. sp. Runere, N. sp. Mugeta and others belong to this 
>group. We recollected N. sp. Runere this year, by the way.
>
>Barry
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>At 12:32 PM 8/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi All,  I picked up a pair of Notho's at the convention this year and I'm 
>>wondering about the name. They came with the name N.sp."Motuksi" TAN 
>>00/01, however, I just saw this location listed as "Motukeri" TAN 00/01 by 
>>someone else. Can someone straighten me out on this?  Beautiful fish 
>>BTW.  thanks,  Ron
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>>Ron Anderson
>>Warwick, RI
>>alt email: ron02886 at cox_net
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