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Re: Re: Book - Aquarium Fishes and Plants, by K. Rataj and R. Zakal





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Reply-To: "Alexei V. Bednii" <alexei_bednii at softhome_net>
From: "Alexei V. Bednii" <alexei_bednii at softhome_net>
To: "Aquatic-Plants Digest" <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
References: <200108210748.f7L7mFE09074 at actwin_com>
Subject: Re: Book - Aquarium Fishes and Plants, by K. Rataj and R. Zakal
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:51:00 +0300

Dear James,
You wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 22:12:26 -0400
> From: "James Purchase" <jppurchase at Home_com>
> Subject: Book - Aquarium Fishes and Plants, by K. Rataj and R. Zakal
> Does anyone know if the K. Rataj who authoed this boook is the SAME chap
> who co-authored "Aquarium Plants. Rataj, K., Horeman, T. (1977)" and 
> which is

Yes, it is the same person - Dr. Karel Rataj (senior), botanist from
Czechia.
Per the seventieth years he made the Revision of genus Cryptocoryne and the
Revision of genus Echinodorus. Now he have (with his son - Karel Rataj
junior) the commercial nursery of aquatic plants. In US and Canada you often
use the Ratay's nomenclature for crypts (C. korthausae, C. axelrodii etc).
Best wishes,
Alexei
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Alexei V. Bednii
Kishinev, Moldova.