fins Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 Hey Can some killifish expert tell me what all the abbreviations killish have mean? eg ETB 96-27 (F1), (F0) ,DNA-01 ,GBN and all the others are. I want to get into killiefish more and would like to understand what these mean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 Are you working with any killies at the moment?? Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajbroome Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 Fins said... > Can some killifish expert tell me what all the abbreviations > killish have mean? eg ETB 96-27 (F1), (F0) ,DNA-01 ,GBN and > all the others are. > I want to get into killiefish more and would like to understand what > these mean. Most of the above are to do with the collection/location info. Killi-keepers tend to be rather concerned with when and where their fish specifically came from and (to some degree) how many generations away from wild caught they are. For example... > ETB 96-27 I could probably find the specific info (my books only go up 1995) but the general format is that the ETB is an abbreviation of the collectors names or in the case of the various TAN collections would be short for Tanzania. The 96 bit refers to 1996 and the 27 refers to the 27th spot the people on that trip went fishing. > (F1), (F0) F0 are wild caught fish, F1 are the next generation and so on... > DNA-01 The first site on the 'DNA' collection in (I beleive) West Africa. > GBN From the 1988 trip to (G)abon by Friedrich (B)itter & Roland (N)umrich. There is a book (in several versions) by Roger Langton that lists all the collections and what fish were found where. Andrew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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