Xref: utzoo rec.pets:2212 alt.aquaria:227 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ncsuvx!uwmcsd1!grc!gary From: gary@grc.UUCP (Gary Sutcliffe) Newsgroups: rec.pets,alt.aquaria Subject: Re: Questions about aquaria Keywords: Dr. Herbert R. Axelrod Message-ID: <810@grc.UUCP> Date: 16 Feb 88 15:42:46 GMT References: <1079@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <719@bucket.UUCP> <1143@inuxd.UUCP> <767@bucket.UUCP> <2558@gryphon.CTS.COM> Reply-To: gary@grc.UUCP (Gary Sutcliffe) Organization: GENROCO, Inc., Slinger, WI Lines: 32 In article <2558@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >But, in his defense, He's been around a long time, knows a lot of people ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Some of the other fish Herb has had named after him. >Cheirodon Axelrodi - Cardinal Tetra > >This explains why his cohorts, some of whom have never left New Jersey >have had fish named after them - Hyphessobrycon Proneki (Neal Pronek) or >Hyphessobrycon Vordelwinkleri - . That is the secret of getting an animal named after you - Know the right people. The person who first describes a new species to science has the honor of naming it. He just can't name it after himself. The person who describes it is not necessarily the one who discovers it. I once met a guy who was into the taxonomy of snails. He would use his vacations to take collecting trips to out of the way places (I met him in Africa). He would usually find about 5 new species each trip. When he got back, he would usually name them after his professors as a way to get brownie points :-) -- Gary Sutcliffe W9XT (414) 644-8700 GENROCO, Inc. Slinger, Wis. {ames, rutgers, harvard} uwvax!uwmcsd1!grc!gary Disclaimer (data compressed): "f+)Je\ ^_RMv9h|O |j8gELc=tAYw$pfs!1"