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Re: Ijebu Ode tangent
> Wright Huntley wrote:
>
> > Many fish can have the same location code. This becomes particularly
likely
> > when the shipping point is used. We have FIL Lagos, and BIT Lagos and
I'm
> > not sure what others. Ojibu Ode is just a few km away, and more rustic,
but
> > still is a shipping center, I believe.
Actually the few kms amount to 500 between A.biv & A.bit. Personally I
wouldn't want to walk the distance in that jungle (sorry Wright).
A.FIL Lagos & A.BIT are sympatric but cannot interbreed to produce viable
offspring.
Ijebu Ode cannot & does not exhibit a black throat (at least I've never seen
it).
The DKG seperatum on Chromaphyosemion by Eberl is excellant & well worth a
look.
>
> I have a BIT that came in as a single pair of mixers from the Niger
> Delta. It's a beautiful fish, but is virtually indistinguishable from
> Ijebu Ode. I keep both fish. If I raise enough fry (so far so good) and
> distribute it, I'll call it CIN 99/1, but it does underline Wright's
> point about shipping centres - and may raise others about codes. At
> least we know when it came, if not from where. If we don't collect them
CIN That would suggest A.cinnamomeum.There is a danger in assigning a code.
How did you assign CIN ?
Presumeably Commerial Import.
Please don't assign a code willy nilly. I did it in the past with
commercially imported fish & I regret doing it although these fish are still
around.
> ourselves, I think we should avoid sticking geographic names on them.
> BTW - I once had a spectacular BIT "Lagos" with no 'arrival code' on it
> that was radically different from Ijebu Ode.
> Just food for thought...
> -Gary
>
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