African fish possibly available on DD!!!!!

[Luiz Rocha]

Hi Kevin, Joe,

I completely agree with both of you, it is "just" fish (although when some of them sell for 5k, they are more than just fish ) and I really don't think there will ever be an "official" common name list. I wasn't criticizing live aquaria for not having a common name that "I recognized". It really doesn't matter which name they use, in the end nobody will buy the fish without looking at it's picture. What prompted my response was the phrase:

Anyone with any knowledge of the industry would know the fish being offered by dd is the one pictured in this thread.

I just wanted to point out the fact that this is not a very nice thing to say; many people with "a lot" of knowledge of the industry don't know all common names. I may not have much knowledge of the industry, but I do know my fish, and I am just horrible remembering common names.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

I'm taking Ichthyology and we started off the semester talking about classification and naming. My professor had mentioned that there is one accepted common name for each species, it's published in some book by some society - I can't remember. Obviously it's not that useful though if nobody knows about it.

 

[Luiz Rocha]

I'm taking Ichthyology and we started off the semester talking about classification and naming. My professor had mentioned that there is one accepted common name for each species, it's published in some book by some society - I can't remember. Obviously it's not that useful though if nobody knows about it.

It is a book published by the American Fisheries Society (AFS), but it only lists fish that are native to North America. I thought they would make it freely available online, but I searched and you have to actually buy it, that's no good. Also, it is only officially adopted in the US, Mexico and Canada, and contains common names in English and Spanish.

Even though it is not available online, Fishbase follows it, so the English common names in Fishbase are likely the AFS ones.

 

[Mark]

That whole flameback group of angels is fascinating. Seeing the range on aurantonotus and then seeing the range on acanthops.... Pretty amazing little complex of fish, if you ask me. Throw in the resplendens and argi, and well, you have a pretty cool evolutionary journey.