Re: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} SNAKEHEAD CONTEST OUTRAGE!!!

The irony is that Channa Argus is just about the perfect name for that creature. See my previous post on the dubiousness of 'lightning perch'. 

Miles

On Friday, February 21, 2014 6:11:07 PM UTC-5, TurbineBlade wrote:

The Eastern Mole has the scientific name Scalopus aquaticus. Want to venture a guess why someone used "aquaticus" for an obviously fossorial organism? ;)  

I agree the Chesapeake thing is somewhat annoying, but it's par for the course of inappropriately-named organisms.  I hope it doesn't get selected though....

Gene

--
http://www.tpfr.org
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tidal-potomac-fly-rodders+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to tidal-potomac-fly-rodders@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tidal-potomac-fly-rodders/5e46997a-44d0-4682-ad76-e96819f82dcd%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.