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bronzefry wrote:Other Parameters: Also see General Remarks. May include water hardness, water movement, seasonal variations and husbandry difficulties encountered.

Please feel free to comment!
Amanda

I'd go with:

Other Parameters: Also see General Remarks. May include water hardness, conductivity, water movement, seasonal variations and water specific husbandry difficulties encountered.

Really liked the off site resources one!

Jolls

Links from the cat-elog pages for References and Synonyms have been changed to the singular. Identification Notes has been changed to Identification.

Ok now?

Jools

Thanks, Jools. The above go in this afternoon(or evening, depending on your time zone). I happened to stumble onto a different glossary in a book I already have. I think there may be some other words to add. Has anybody thought of a way to add hours to the day? I need them.
Amanda

May I make a suggestion?
Head Length: Abbr. HL. The distance from the tip of the snout to the end of the operculum.

Snout: The nose area.

For some reason, snout got lost in all of this!
Amanda

Here are some more words:
Husbandry: Seeing to the overall care and welfare of an animal.

Adhesive Spawner: A species that lays eggs that stick to a surface.

Cave Spawner: A species that lays eggs in a cave.

Immunity: The ability of an organism to overcome a pathogen.

Mimicry: The ability of a species to imitate another's behavior or appearance. Some species may imitate an inanimate object, such as a leaf or a branch to blend in with the background to avoid predation.

Morph: A variation or a different form. Example: Longer fins or a different color on the same species.

Pigmentation: The substance that gives a plant or animal its color.

Planaria: A flatworm that often sets up residence in an aquarium and is considered a nuisance.

Amanda

I have one that I couldn't find anywhere on the internet, finally had to email Jon Armbruster.
SPINELET- a locking mechanism found at the base of and strongly adhered to the dorsal spine and holds the dorsal fin erect. Tracy

bronzefry wrote:Snout: The nose area.

What's the difference between snout and rostrum? Maybe add a "See also rostrum" to the above entry?

Jools

Doh! That's why we didn't put snout in the glossary.

Tankbuster: A fish that grows too large for the average home aquarium.
Amanda

ghost716 wrote:I have one that I couldn't find anywhere on the internet, finally had to email Jon Armbruster.
SPINELET- a locking mechanism found at the base of and strongly adhered to the dorsal spine and holds the dorsal fin erect. Tracy

Thanks, Tracy!
Amanda

I've also put a tiny link in the cat-elog data sheet that links SL to the definition in the glossary.

Jools

I haven't been following this for a while, but is the word xanthoristic already noted? Plus an adequate description, as I don't think "albino with normally coloured eyes" (in which normally means: not reddish) will be sufficient.

I wrote these:

Amelanism:
"Underload" of melanin - similar to albinism, but may have some colour for example in eyes.

Leucism:
Another word for Amelanism.

But they haven't been included - I don't know why...

Xanthoristic is another synonym for those two words. I guess the explanation may need "beefing up" a bit...

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Mats

I've got a long weekend available. No time like the present to look these things up!
Amanda

Leucism is in the glossary, but it may need reworking. Amelanism isn't. I believe it got lost in the shuffle! Sorry, Mats. I have a bunch of words below that may help hone the definitions(or not).

Amelanism: An animal lacking black pigments. Yellow and red pigments are present. This animal is not a "true" albino. Also see Albino, Leucism and Xanthism.

Xanthism: An animal which is yellow or golden in color. This may happen in nature or through selective breeding.

Axanthic: An animal lacking yellow pigmentation. This animal will be entirely black.

Leucism: An animal with white pigmentation, but normal eye color. This is not a "true" albino. Also see Albino, Amelanism and Xanthism.

I know there have been posts on this site about "all black" Corydora Aeneus. But, I'm not sure the word "Axanthic" has been used....
Amanda
(Mats, I'm going to see if I've lost any other words you've posted. )

I have another one. I actually keep coming across a lot of words from Jon Armbruster's site that I have a rough time finding the definition for.
osteology- the scientific study of bones
pectoral girdle- a set of bones that support the upper limbs in vertebrates.
I will have to make a list of all the words I am finding so I don't have to keep posting. Tracy

Much obliged, Tracy. Are the definitions exactly the way Jon Ambruster wrote them?
Amanda

How about this:
Pectoral Girdle: A set of bones which supports the pectoral fin.
Amanda

A couple of words I found in the Cat-eLog:
Falcate - Sickle shaped, curved and tapering to a point.
Semilunar - half-moon shaped.

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Mats

Another Cat-eLog word:

Ostracods - Small crustaceans, usually around 1mm in length. Also Ostracoda.

Crustaceans - Mainly aquatic animals that have a hard outer layer, shell or crust to protect them, such as shrimp, lobsters, crabs and barnacles.

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Mats

And another one:
Crepuscular - Active at during twilight. See also diurnal and nocturnal.

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Mats

Thanks, Mats!
Amanda

Another one:

Obligate - Forced to do something to be alive, i.e. obligate parasite can not survive without parasiting.

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Mats

You're on a roll, Mats!
Amanda

Does this belong in the Glossary?

Revision - (Taxonomy) To re-examine a species, genera or family to correct mistakes/inconsistancies and possibly make changes to the status of described taxa.

Better explanations welcome....

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Mats

MatsP wrote:Does this belong in the Glossary?

Revision - (Taxonomy) To re-examine a species, genera or family to correct mistakes/inconsistancies and possibly make changes to the status of described taxa.

Better explanations welcome....

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Mats

Oh, as in the former planet Pluto? Good question.
Amanda

bronzefry wrote:

MatsP wrote:Does this belong in the Glossary?

Revision - (Taxonomy) To re-examine a species, genera or family to correct mistakes/inconsistancies and possibly make changes to the status of described taxa.

Better explanations welcome....

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Mats

Oh, as in the former planet Pluto? Good question.
Amanda

Minor re-write:
b]Revision[/b] - (Taxonomy) To re-examine species, genus or family to correct mistakes/inconsistancies and possibly make changes to the status of described taxa.

And yes, Pluto was "revised" into the dwarf-planet category, if I understood what I heard on the radio correctly.

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Mats

Any other input on this definition?:?:
Amanda

I'll put that in when I have a few moments. This one is from Lee Finley.
Commercial Extinction: A food fish no longer common enough to be profitable.
Amanda

Oxbow: A "U"-shaped lake that occurs when a section of a river, stream or tributary is cut off from the main section and isolated. Oxbows are usually located in flood plains.

Are oxbows more likely to appear with the dry season and disappear with the wet season?
Amanda

Oxbow may also apply to a river type that consists of many "u" shaped meanders in a rivers course, not only the lakes that are formed when the river changes course and cuts the "u" off from the river channel.