Sp. Faranah from rehoboth aquatics

jaws7777 · Jun 9, 2017

Owens said:
My friend you should dig into where they are caught!

You realize Faranah and Dabola are two little towns in Guinea? They are like 30 miles apart. If you look at a map of Guinea, you will also notice there is no river running through Dabola, only the Niger to the right of it.

I would guess that Polypterus caught out of the northern end are called "Dabola" and the southern end "Faranah". Were talking about a handful of miles in the same water body.

Seen the map many times.

No my friend you need to inquire about where the sp.dabola are actually caught.

Not really looking to get into a heated arguement either its ok to disagree about somerhing that literally no scientist in kver 60 yrs has written about

Owens · Jun 9, 2017

jaws7777 said:
Look fellas in a few days if one of my kids take a liking to it it'll have some corny name and this will all be forgotten.

Hm, I thought we were having an intelligent discussion on the mis-labeling of the fish we put so much time, energy, and money into.

Owens · Jun 9, 2017

jaws7777 said:
Seen the map many times.

No my friend you need to inquire about where the sp.dabola are actually caught.

Not really looking to get into a heated arguement either its ok to disagree about somerhing that literally no scientist in kver 60 yrs has written about

Perhaps you can enlighten me?

Hao · Jun 9, 2017

Owens said:
My friend you should dig into where they are caught!

You realize Faranah and Dabola are two little towns in Guinea? They are like 30 miles apart. If you look at a map of Guinea, you will also notice there is no river running through Dabola, only the Niger to the right of it.

I would guess that Polypterus caught out of the northern end are called "Dabola" and the southern end "Faranah". Were talking about a handful of miles in the same water body.

Toyin told me, he used to tag them Dabola because they thought that's where they came from based on earlier supplier (back in 2008-2009 probably). This was way before Faranah was ever mentioned by Guinean suppliers. More recently, whenever Toyin would order bichirs from "Dabola", he would only receive Endlicheris. All the sp. "Dabola", Endli, and Laps have been coming from the same area in Faranah. Polypterus sp. "Dabola" should be called sp. "Faranah" but whatever lets keep it at sp.Dabola until we get an official name to make things less confusing.

Polyaddict86 · Jun 9, 2017

Owens said:
My friend you should dig into where they are caught!

You realize Faranah and Dabola are two little towns in Guinea? They are like 30 miles apart. If you look at a map of Guinea, you will also notice there is no river running through Dabola, only the Niger to the right of it.

I would guess that Polypterus caught out of the northern end are called "Dabola" and the southern end "Faranah". Were talking about a handful of miles in the same water body.

Tinkisso river runs through dabola.

Owens · Jun 9, 2017

Hao said:
Toyin told me, he used to tag them Dabola because they thought that's where they came from based on earlier supplier (back in 2008-2009 probably). This was way before Faranah was ever mentioned by Guinean suppliers. More recently, whenever Toyin would order bichirs from "Dabola", he would only receive Endlicheris. All the sp. "Dabola", Endli, and Laps have been coming from the same area in Faranah. Polypterus sp. "Dabola" should be called sp. "Faranah" but whatever lets keep it at sp.Dabola until we get an official name to make things less confusing.

Right, thats pretty much my entire point.

The town that Sp. Dabola is named after doesn't matter, its the fact we are throwing locality labels on other species for no reason. There is no Sp. Faranah, Dabola Endli, Dabola Lap, ect.

What we do have is Endlicheri found in the Faranah region of Guinea and Lapradei found in the Faranah region of Guinea.

Meh, I sound like a broken record.