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Re: AFF vs FFF



 James Purchase wrote,
 
<< "That's one of the beauties of Scientific names - they are always the 
same."
  >>

And how about the livebearers and the African cichlids  - a guppy will always 
be a guppy and a krib, a krib, but you can't tell that from their ever 
changing "scientific" names.  The common names of fish usually remain 
constant; it's the "scientific" ones that change.

I hope that the taxonomists soon enter the computer age and come to realize 
that the "scientific" name should just be used to identify a particular 
species.  There are better ways to link a species to its
relatives than by it's "scientific" name.

Bill