Re: NANFA-L-- World's Smallest Fish?

Michael Sandel (kwksand-in-yahoo.com)
Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:26:02 -0800 (PST)

Max size is normally communicated as the largest recorded SL for any individual of a species. In order to be the smallest vertebrate, you should have the smallest max size. I also relayed the smallest size-in-sexual maturity for the same species, because that was the argument that Kottelat is using to claim "world's smallest". Turns out, they didn't have the smallest of either measurement.

EELReprah-in-aol.com wrote: In a message dated 1/27/06 11:09:22 AM, dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu writes:

<< Why so set on eliminating consideration of the newly discovered minnow
because not every individual is smaller than every individual of the
goby? >>

They important factor for me is that the largest of species X be smaller than
the largest of species Y. That is obviously the only way it can mean
anything,-in-least to me.

Lee Harper
Media, PA
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