Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Re: nanfa-l-digest V1 #42
dlmcneely at lunet.edu
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 13:44:46 CDT
I haven't "poo-pooed" any state. My only objection to lmb is its conection with sports fishing and, yes, because it is one of the only fish that people know of.
I am not tied to ANY choice. I am very interested in us doing something with this idea. Again, my only reason for suggesting a generic choice is to be able to give as many people as possible a stake, and cyprinidae is the only family I can come up with that has such a wide distribution. Our north american cyprinids are pretty neat, and most genera that occur here are restricted to this continent. Lots of them require high quality conditions. But whatever we do, let's move on it.
If it's is darters, fine. If it is minnows, fine. If it is a group of minnows, fine. If it is a sunfish, fine. If it is a single darter species (most have rather narrow distribution, though), fine.
Let's do it.
Dave
David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely at lunet.edu
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----- Original Message -----
From: "R. W. Wolff" <choupiqu at wctc.net>
Date: Monday, September 13, 2004 1:29 pm
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Re: nanfa-l-digest V1 #42
> Why the cyprinidae? These fish are found world wide. Such a non
> descriptsymbol would defeat the purpose of having a symbol.
>
> Conversly, what is so bad about largemouth bass? It is the largest
> sunfish,a strictly North American family. None of the states you
> all poo poo picked
> "bass" and show an outline of a generic bass.
>
> Why not pick a N.A. species? Atleast darters are N.A. Fish. I
> would prefer
> something larger though that people know of ,or could get to know
> better.Bowfin, gar, even shad. The first two in the previous
> sentence could sure
> use an image boost.
>
> Ray
>
>
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