RE: Re: Common fish naming

Harro Hieronimus (Harro.Hieronimus at t-online.de)
Wed, 6 Nov 96 22:52 +0100

Wha do you complain about common names? If you want, come
to Germany. I can tell you nearly ten species which have been
sold as "Blue Rainbowfish".

The only way, as suggested, is to use scientific names (even in
your own language, in Germany every rainbowfishkeeper mean-
while knows what a "Boesemani" or a "Lacustris" is without
knowing it's a Melanotaenia) and finding place. In M. trifasciata
many of the fish here are kept exclusively under their origin places,
like Goyder Rainbow.

Harro