There was one last year I believe...somebody may be able to answer which issue...if not when I get home I will check and let you know.
Cichla temensis "Orinoco"
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I cannot edit my post for some reason, and I have to go to the academy now, so I will have to answer this in detail later. Sorry for the continued delay.
--Brian
--Brian
OK, sorry for addressing this so late, the academy is kicking my butt and I had advanced expandable baton training and defensive/offensive manuever training last night so I am a bit soreI am a bit confused also...what distiguishable characteristic makes this a "TRUE" Venezuelan vs any other temensis from Venezuela? or are you just generalizing by using "true" to actually generalize the whole Venezuelan temensis population? if this is true wouldnt a temensis from brazil be a "true" brazilian temensis, no matter lower amazonas ? and determining species...is this being done now via dna or is there actual physical determiners or pattern variations that are true to that species without flux?.......reason I am asking is this is so confusing...and you seem to correct everyone all the time but offer up no info but a name of a species.....dont get me wrong...not meaning to sound bashing what-so-ever...just very confused now on the classification of species as you've told of late and was wanting some education on the matter.
Anyway, the reason that we call things "true" and such is mostly when there are more than one type of a fish present in a said area. For example, we know that only the actual classified Cichla temensis comes from the Rio Orinoco so based on it's collection locale we can name it accordingly. I am not a huge fan of this method but it seems to be quite popular with academics so there it is.
Now, if I were to say that I have a "true" Cichla temensis from the Rio Atabapo in Colombia then I would be in error as there seems to be some common thought that there may exist a different species of "temensis-type" fish there but there is no doubt that all "temensis-type" fish from the Rio Orinoco are the real C. temensis. Cool?
Granted, I did not collect those fish myself, and if that's the case then you can NEVER guarantee their actual collection locale but I know the exporter very well and he has never steared me wrong so there is a high level of trust with him and his locales.
Is that better??
