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Good for you! Can you tell us what you're working on?

Cheers, Eric

bekateen wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 01:36 Good for you! Can you tell us what you're working on?

It would appear Dr. Ng is using an optical microscope and calipers to obtain biometrics of that candiru-like preserved fish in the plastic Petri dish. No?

Viktor Jarikov wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 02:36It would appear Dr. Ng is using an optical microscope and calipers to obtain biometrics of that candiru-like preserved fish in the plastic Petri dish. No?

As to what the good doctor is doing yes. As to what fish it is, I can't tell. I was thinking of some kind of Ompok or other similarly shaped fish. That's just a random guess.

Cheers, Eric

bekateen wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 03:31

Viktor Jarikov wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 02:36It would appear Dr. Ng is using an optical microscope and calipers to obtain biometrics of that candiru-like preserved fish in the plastic Petri dish. No?

As to what the good doctor is doing yes. As to what fish it is, I can't tell. I was thinking of some kind of Ompok or other similarly shaped fish. That's just a random guess.

Cheers, Eric

It's actually a Silurichthys. There are Amblyceps and Glaridoglanis in all of the other bottles. All unnamed. Also a couple small bottles of Olyra elongata (that species awaits revalidation).

Nice to see the science marching on and attacking the undescribed 40% of the total fish species. I feel so close and intimate, a hair away from included in the cutting edge taxonomy R&D. But that's just me

As for my earlier comment, it was meant as an "obvious" and obviously silly dig at our dear Eric where I pretended to explain what was being obviously done haha... I apologize if missed or deemed borderline improper. Straight face was a part of the farce but hard to translate unambiguously through electronics.

Viktor Jarikov wrote: ↑26 Apr 2021, 17:00As for my earlier comment, it was meant as an "obvious" and obviously silly dig at our dear Eric where I pretended to explain what was being obviously done haha... I apologize if missed or deemed borderline improper. Straight face was a part of the farce but hard to translate unambiguously through electronics.

No harm, no foul.

This is great news, made my day! Looking forward to hearing of the work.

Cheers,



Jools