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-----Original Message-----
From: PETER.UNMACK at ASU.Edu <PETER.UNMACK at ASU.Edu>
To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Date: Thursday, 24 May 2001 1:35
Subject: Re: [RML] Madagascar Rainbows?
>On Wed, 23 May 2001, Danny wrote:
>
>> Is a bedotiidae as much a rainbow as Pseudomugilidae???????????
>
>No, Bedotia is much closer to Melanotaenia. Recent molecular results by
>others seem to support the inclusion of Bedotia as being part of
>Melanotaeniidae. My initial sequence results for a nuclear gene puts
>Pseudomugil as the sister group to Craterocephalus and Melanotaenia.
That's
>only for one gene though, hence I wouldn't put too much faith in it yet.
>
>Tootles
>Peter
>