Tuesday, November 08, 2005

The hits keep on coming

Someone pushy has provided three names for my two fish:

I looked up your silly fish for some ideas
Mudskippers, Subfamily Oxudercinae, Family Gobiida
so, based on the subfamily name, you could call one "Darcy" (from 'derci') and based on the "family" you could call one "Gobi"
So, we have Skippy, Darcy and Gobi
how is it so far?

Maybe I can name my sacrificial minnows. They're kinda cool. One's a mutant though. He has no tail, but a stump where a tail would be. Of course, being a geneticist, I must correct myself in that the most likely case is a sporadic developmental defect rather than a genetic one.

He still swims quite well by flipping the tail at high speed. Even handicapped fish can adapt.

2 Comments:

At 9:53 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

You have to call the mutant one Stumpy...there's just no way around it.

 
At 1:32 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

how dare you call me names? And didn't I also suggest Lurch as a name?

by the way, what does "remenber me? mean? (it's below this comment box. Perhaps "doctors of genetics" should proof-read their blogs?)

 

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