--Bruce Stallsmith
>Bruce,
>
>I've found (although I'm not nearly the Fundulus expert you are)
>that newly captured specimens have strikingly different colors than
>they do after they have settled down. Newly captured "olivaceous"
>from some drainages in my area have a GREEN band consisting of
>short vertical bars. When placed in an aquarium they look like
>regular olivaceous. The catenatus I've seen are also very different
>from your Alabama variety.
>
>
>Prost,
>
>Martin
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