Got my Aqualog (rays) for Christmas today..

[Miles]

and damn I am more confused than ever..Seems like this book has some identification issues as well, but what are they based on in the first place?


Any know of any other good stingray literature, hopefully speaking more specifically about the body structure of specific ray types and/or the history and origin of the rays classification tools..

I think the only major ray publication I am missing now is the Arraia 2 book..

I think I might just have to order color copies of R.S. Rosa dissertation. Wish those crazy Brazilian scientists would reply to my friggin emails. Hopefully they bring some publicly available literature to the Stingray Synposium.

 

[stingrays1]

If you are referring to Ricardo Rosa's original dissertation, I don't think you can get color copies because it was in b&w... I got copies some years ago, and the taxonomy is based entirely on dissected preserved specimens... the pix are all of the cartilage structure of dissected specimens that had been preserved in formalin so the color was all lost... anyway I think Frank Schafer, who is the owner of Aqualog, will be at the Freshwater Stingray symposium, so you can ask him in person...

 

[csx4236]

hey miles clear out your emails

 

[Nic]

witch volume of aqualog stingrays did you get... I can only find volume 13 from richard ross

 

[Miles]

I got both volumes..

After reading more thoroughly I realized the information provided was really thorough.

I would like to still get Rosa's dissertation.. Andreas spoke about the color copies, but said they were expensive... obviously they wouldn't help much.

I wonder if there is any other good literature..

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