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General Announcements AUSTRALIAN FISH BIODIVERSITY WEBSITE. The Australian Fish Biodiversity Website is designed to promote and disseminate information about fish collections and taxonomic research on fishes within Australia. It is the result of the efforts of collection management staff and research scientists of the nine major Australian institutions holding fish collections, and is the initial step in the multistage development of an on-line electronic information source for the provision of:
THE BIOGEOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIAN FRESHWATER FISHES is now online with lots of information and figures. http://fish.la.asu.edu/biogeog BIOGEOGRAPHY SPREADSHEET FOR INDO-PACIFIC SHOREFISHES: I am currently creating a biogeographic table of shorefish fish distributions for the Indo-Pacific on an Excel spreadsheet. The purpose of the spreadsheet is to compare biodiversity across regions and aid in producing detailed species distribution maps. It includes all species of shorefishes that occur down to 200 m, including freshwater gobioids as well as deeper-dwelling species within certain families that include shorefishes (e.g. many eels, dragonets, scorpaeniforme\s). It is based primarily on published checklists, taxonomic revisions and periodic reviews of key journals, but also utilizes much unpublished information from other verifiable sources such as museum collection data-bases. So far, I've completed the Pacific/Philippines Plate from Hong Kong, Queensland, and PNG to Hawaii and Easter Island, but still have to fill in gaps such as Tonga, the Solomon Is., and Vanuatu. The South China Sea, Philippines and eastern Indonesia are next. I am interested in contributions from anyone with recent, accurate lists of fishes from their area, especially lists that can be emailed as electronic files convertible to MS Word or Excel. Of course, I would be happy to share information from my spreadsheet. Since this is an unfunded project that gets "shelved" for long periods of time, I ask past and future collaborators to please bear with me and I will eventually get back to you. Since it now occupies nearly 100 pages of near-microscopic text, I rarely print it and prefer to share it or portions of it as an electronic file. Robert F. Myers, P.O. Box 21153, GMF, Guam 96921, USA; Tel (671) 734-1092 (call first to fax from ca. 1300-2200 GMT); E-mail: rmyers@netpci.com. THE BÖHLKE FUND provides support for graduate students to work with the Ichthyology collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences of the Philadelphia. The Fund provides money for travel to Philadelphia and for modest living accommodations available at the Academy (up to $500.00). Recipients of the Fund in 1999 were Martin J. deGravelle, Old Dominion University, and Mark Sabaj, Illinois Natural History Survey. To apply for 2000, send letter of application outlining proposed research and tentative budget to Dr. John Lundberg, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103-1195, or email to Lundberg@say.acnatsci.org. BOOK AVAILABLE (still!) Lindberg, G.U. and Z.V. Krasyukova. 1975. Fishes of the Sea of Japan and the adjacent areas of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Yellow Sea. Part 4. Teleostomi XXIX. Perciformes. Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR no. 108. Translation from the Russian TT 81-52179. A few free copies are still available from the Translation Editor, Dr. Bruce B. Collette, NMFS Systematics Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 20560-0153. BOOK REVIEWS. If you have authored a fish book or want to call attention to a specific title, please have a review copy of the book sent to: Dr. Tim M. Berra, Ichthyological Book Review Editor Copeia, Dept. of Evolution, Ecology, & Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Mansfield, OH 44906 USA. THE "CALHAMAZON" PROJECT COLLECTIONS OF AMAZONIAN FISHES AND INVERTEBRATES. The U.S. NSF - Brazilian CNPq-supported cooperative research project entitled "Fish diversity of the principal channels of the Amazon River, Brazil" completed its funded period in early 1999. Project participants are working on taxonomic, phylogenetic and faunistic analyses based on the new collections. The collections are now mostly deposited at MZUSP, FMNH and USNM. Send inquiries to the curators in charge or John G. Lundberg, Department of Ichthyology, The Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103. THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF VERTEBRATES has recently acquired a large collection of freshwater fishes from Gabon (>10,000 specimens). We invite all experts on African freshwater fishes to assist us in their identification via loans or on-site visits. The entire collection is computerized and can be searched on-line <http://cumv.bio.cornell.edu/cufish.html>. For more information, please contact John Friel (jpf19@cornell.edu) or Charles Dardia (frogfish@cornell.edu). E-MAIL ADDRESSES ON THE C.A.S. NEWSLETTER OF SYSTEMATIC ICHTHYOLOGY. A considerable number of the announcements sent out by e-mail to our subscribers have been returned to us undeliverable. To avoid non receipt, please remember to up-date with us whenever your e-mail address is changed. Your e-mail address given in your synopsis submitted is counterchecked with the list appearing in the last section of the C.A.S.N.S.I. of the previous year’s issue, and updated/corrected when needed. If your address is only temporary due to teaching/study/ research/sebatical reasons, please so indicate, providing effective time period. FishBase 99. The 99 edition of FishBase, a large biological database with key information on 23,500 species of fishes, is available on 3 CD-ROMs. Experts who have volunteered to check information in FishBase for their respective areas of expertise can claim their free copies. Others can order it for US$95 (updates US$50), including airmail (contact fishbase@cgiar.org). Note that the 99 version of FishBase comes with a French translation of the 1998 book 'FishBase: Concepts, Design and Data Sources. The CD-ROM is in English, but help text is available in English and French. Parts of FishBase are also available on-line at http://www.fishbase.org/search.cfm. FREE! Twelve formalin-preserved billfish heads representing seven species. Ideal for anatomical dissection. One shortbill spearfish with its circulatory system injected. Containers included. Preference given to whomever takes all specimens. Recipient(s) must provide transport. Contact Harry L. Fierstine, Professor emeritus, Biol. Sci. Dept., California Polytechnic State Univ., San Luis Obispo, CA 93407. (805)756-2788; FAX 756-1419; E-mail hfiersti@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu "INDO-PACIFIC PIPEFISHES (Red Sea to the Americas)" by C.E. Dawson, can be purchased for $17.50 (includes S&H charges). Send check or money order to GCRL, P.O. Box 7000, Ocean Springs, MS 39566-7000, attn: S.G. Poss or M.W. Littmann. INVALID NEOTYPES. In the following papers published in 1999, several neotypes were designated to solve taxonomical problems: FRICKE, R. 1999. Annotated checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Germany, with remarks on their taxonomic identity. Stuttg. Beitr. Naturk., (A) 587:1-67. FRICKE, R. 1999. Fishes of the Mascarene Islands (Réunion, Mauritius, Rodriguez): an annotated checklist, with descriptions of new species. Koenigstein (Koeltz Scientific Books), viii + 759 pp. These neotypes should not be used, as their designation is not sufficiently in accordance with Art. 75b and Art. 75d of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The taxonomical problems addressed in the publications should be solved in the future. (R. Fricke). ICZN. The new and extensively revised 4th edition of the “International Code of Zoological Nomenclature” has now been published and will come into effect on 1 January 2000. The price is A40 (pounds) or US$65, but discounts are offered to individuals buying the Code for personal use or to institutions buying five or more copies. Full details of how to buy copies are given on the Commission’s Website www.iczn.org, or may be obtained by e-mailing iczn@nhm.ac.uk A MINI-SYMPOSIUM ON THE "CONSERVATION BIOLOGY OF CORAL REEF FISHERIES" will be held at the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium (9ICRS) in Bali, Indonesia between 23-27 October, 2000. Topics will include conservation strategies, marine reserves, threatened and endangered species, and the Live Fish Trade. For more information, contact Dr. T.J. Donaldson, International Marinelife Alliance, University of Guam Marine Laboratory, UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923 USA (donaldsn@imamarinelife.org). Deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 April, 2000. Abstracts may be sent to the above address or directly via email to Dr. David Hopley, International Society for the Study of Coral Reefs, 9ICRS Scientific Committee (David.Hopley@ultra.net.id). Deadline for early registration (at a discounted rate) is 30 July, 2000. Deadline for submission of manuscripts for inclusion in the 9ICRS Proceedings is 20 December, 2000. For more information about the 9ICRS, visit the website at: www.nova.edu/ocean/9ICRS. Registration can be made via this website. MOVE OF COLLECTIONS IN THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON. The fish collection in The Natural History Museum (formerly British Museum (Natural History)) will be moved into a new Zoology Department building. The new building, which is currently under construction adjacent to the current Spirit Building, is due to be completed by the end of 2000; the collections will be moved over the first six or so months of 2001. Visitor and loan access to the fish collection during the move will be very difficult, and researchers wishing to make use of the collections should therefore plan appropriately. For further details, contact: Oliver Crimmen, Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K. Tel. 44 (0)20 7942 5753; fax 44 (0)20 7942 5433; e-mail: oac@nhm.ac.uk NMNZ FISH COLLECTION CLOSED UNTIL May 2000. The National Fish Collection held by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington will be packed, moved and installed into a new site next year. It is anticipated that normal access will be available for visits and loans from June 2000 onwards. Please hold onto existing loans and postpone visits and further loan requests until after the big move. Our postal address remains the same, but our street address changes to: 169 Tory Street, Wellington. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FISHERY AND AQUACULTURE –INPA- COLOMBIA. Estimamos que para el primer trimestre del 2000 se este publicando la primera edición del catálogo "Estadíos tempranos de peces en el Pacífico colombiano", el cual reúne resultados de 10 años de investigación del ictioplancton de esta zona. Recoge informacion de 21 ordenes, 95 familias y 180 especies, para un aproximado de 400 paginas. Interesados favor contactar a BEATRIZ BELTRAN Apartado Aereo 10742, Buenaventura COLOMBIA. E-mail: inpa@col2.telecom.com.co [We expect in the first three months of the 2000 to finish the publication of a catalog titled "Early stages the fishes in the Pacific coast of Colombia", which is the result of 10 years of the research group on Ichthyoplankton from the Colombia Pacific, the publication groups 21 orders, 95 families and 180 species summarized in 400 illustrated pages. For further information, please contact BEATRIZ BELTRAN A.A P.O. Box 10742, Buenaventura COLOMBIA. E-mail: inpa@col2.telecom.com.co] NEW DEVELOPMENTS AT THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM: (1) The Australian Museum website (www.austmus.gov.au/fish) now includes an online type database. The collection contains 4352 type lots (10,477 specimens). Available fields include family, type name, type status, author(s), publication date, registration number, and number of specimens. This can be accessed via a button on the home page, or directly at www.austmus.gov.au/fish/types. The website has heaps of other fishy stuff, so check it out. (2) In late 1998 the Australian Museum joined forces with the Field Museum, the Milwaukee Public Museum, the National Museum of Natural History and Solomon Islands Fisheries to collect fishes in the Santa Cruz Group, Solomon Islands. Fishes from 19 rotenone stations are registered at AMS and are now available for loan. Collections from similar joint expeditions to southern/central and northern Vanuatu in 1996 and 1997 are also available. Contact Mark McGrouther at markm@amsg.austmus.gov.au for details. (3) The Australian Museum offers Research and Collection Fellowships to help support short visits to the Museum. Research Fellowships are available to researchers working as collaborators on Australian Museum Research Centre Projects. The Collection Fellowships promote collection-based research on parts of the collection for which the Museum has no specialist. If you are interested in more information about either fellowship, contact Mark McGrouther on markm@amsg.austmus.gov.au or Jeff Leis on jeffl@amsg.austmus.gov.au. PHYLOGENY AND CLASSIFICATION OF NEOTROPICAL FISHES, edited by Malabarba, Reis, Vari, Lucena & Lucena is still available from the publisher at edipucrs@pucrs.br. The price is US$62, hard cover. For contents and contributors, please refer to last issue of this newsletter or at http://www.pucrs.br/museu/ictio/livro.htm in the MCP homepage. Proceedings of the 5th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference (Nouméa, New Caledonia, 2-8 November 1997) - Séret B. & J.-Y. Sire (eds), 1999-79 papers - 866 p. - The content of these proceedings is available at: http://www.mnhn.fr/sfi/cybium/ipfc5toc.html . To order copies (400 FF/ copy + postage), contact: B. Séret at seret@mnhn.fr PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF EUROPEAN ICHTHYOLOGISTS - "FISH BIODIVERSITY" Edited by P.G. Bianco & Coll., will be ready for distribution in November 1999. The proceedings will appear as an extra issue to the n. 65 (supplement 1) of " The Italian Journal of Zoology" (an international journal covered by Current Contents). The proceedings include 96 selected papers dealing with every aspect of fish diversity. Multidisciplinary approaches are used to interrelate the fields of behavior, adaptations and morphology, environmental impacts, genetics and cytogenetics and other subjects as fisheries, fishing and aquaculture and palaeontology. The book of proceedings, paperbound, of about 560 pp in A4 format, is available at cost of US$110.00 (P&P included). Order by ordinary mail or Fax (+39 059 262628) should be sent to: Mucchi Editore, Via Emilia Est 1527, I-41100 MODENA (Italy). REQUEST FOR RECENT COMPARATIVE MATERIAL from Henry Cappetta. In the course of study on Recent dasyatids and urolophids dental morphologies, I should be very grateful to colleagues who could provide me with jaws of North American Atlantic species (Dasyatis centroura, D. americana, D. guttata, D. say, D. sabina) as well as jaws of Plesiobatis daviesi, Hexatrygon and Urogymnus. UNIVERSITY OF GUAM MARINE LABORATORY FISH COLLECTION. Renovation and downsizing continues sporadically. Duplicate lots will be made available for donation to any interested persons or institutions. For further details, please contact Robert F. Myers c/o Terry Donaldson, Marine Laboratory, UOG Station, Mangilao, Guam 96923 USA, Fax (671)-734-6767. VDA-REFERATE FISCHBESTIMMUNGSSTELLE UND BIOTOP-DATENBANK SPARTENLEITUNG SCHMERLEN im VDA-Arbeitskreis BSSW Schriftfuhrung und Redaktion AQUA TROPIC Gerhard H.F. Ott, Dipl.-Pad. Holzkrugweg 16E D-24941 Flensburg GERMANY. E-mail Gerhard.Ott-FL@t-online.de Internet-Site http://home.t-online.de/home/Gerhard.Ott-FL; Tel +49 (0)461/ 9 40 14 45 p; Fax +49 (0)461/ 9 40 14 46 p; fon +49 (0)4631/ 666 2741 g; ZUPANCIC PRIMOZ (adress under synopsis) wants to buy the following books: Cooper, L.E. 1983:
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