ryanjury Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 http://www.trademe.co.nz/Home-living/Pe ... 654471.htm I read the article posted recently and they suggested that brichardi and pulcher were in fact the same species but didn't realize they had been reclassified.. Anyone heard anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishy_t Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 http://www.fnzas.org.nz/fishroom/neolamprologus-brichardi-and-pulcher-vt25256.html That’s what that was about! They have officially been classed as one species now called N. pulcher (they used that ones name as it is thought to be the ancestral form) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishy_t Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Well - when I say that I mean they have now been named as one species in a published paper, as far as I know it now means that this is what they will be called from now on, but it takes a while for the general scientific community to accept any name/genus changes as someone might argue some other case (i.e. that they could all be called bricks) One of my Prof's at uni is going through the process now - he and some colleagues have just re-classified all of the NZ Hebe's (plants) as Veronica's (its a long story!) and although it is now sort of official, it take a while for it to move down through the system till people actually start using the changed names, does that make sense??! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted October 21, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Thats going to cause some confusion and were going to loose those nice yellow "pulchers" when everyone goes out and mixes them all up I didn't think they had been officially reclassified as such, just that someone was suggesting they had been.. There has to be some way of differentiating by name between the yellow and grey versions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishy_t Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 But that’s how it works in taxonomy - if a paper is published (like that one was) it means it has been 'peer reviewed' by scientists in the right fields (ie in this case fish - probably even cichlid - taxonomy) which means that people in the know think that it is right which means that its pretty much decided... Saying that common names always hang around - just look at 'kribs'!! So the two names will stick around in the trade I'm sure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afrikan Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Not going to be losing nice yellow Pulchers from here I keep both and I'm certainly not going to be mixing them due to the fact that they have been reclassified as the same species, would just totally wreck the "colour strain" if that's what they now class it as... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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