Well Lance you seem to have stopped the list dead with this posting. The
subject reference -- or perhaps it was the imagery thus evoked -- was just
too much for us, I guess.

One day I want to write a piece about randy fish names and terms. There are
loads of them.

Dave Dobbs


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> From: Lance Jordan <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Scientific forum on fish and fisheries <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:30:07 -0400
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Slippery dick disease -not a joke
>
> Hello,
>
> I am a grad student studying coral reef fishes in South Florida -mainly off
> the coast of Broward Co.  In the last couple weeks of diving I have noticed
> that a large percentage of 5-7cm slippery dicks (Halichoeres bivittatus)
> appear to have fleshy lesions growing upon them.  Has anyone in our area or
> elsewhere in the Caribbean come across these apparently diseased fish?  Is
> anyone familiar with species-specific diseases which affect particular
> age/size classes of a population?
>
> Thanks,
> Lance Jordan
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
>
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> Graduate Research Assistant
> Nova Southeastern University          Phone: (954) 262-3619
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