Posted on 11/30/2012 2:47:57 PM PST by Red Badger
Scientists have named five newly discovered fish after former and current U.S. political leaders, including President Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, and Teddy Roosevelt, reports the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute and Scientific American.
The fish were formerly described earlier this month in the journal the Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History.
The fish are all species of darter, a group that is found widely in the United States. The species were identified after research on the Speckled Darter (Etheostoma stigmaeum) concluded that it could be divided into nine separate species, five of which are now named after U.S. leaders. These include the Spangled Darter (Etheostoma obama) from Tennessee; the Cumberland Darter (Etheostoma gore) and the Bluegrass Darter (Etheostoma jimmycarter) from Tennessee and Kentucky; the Highland Darter (Etheostoma teddyroosevelt) from Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma; and the Beaded Darter (Etheostoma clinton) from Arkansas.
The researchers — Steve Layman at Geosyntec Consultants in Kennesaw, Georgia and Rick Mayden at Saint Louis University in Missouri — say they named the species after leaders they believe demonstrated environmental leadership and commitment.
CITATION: Steven Layman and Richard Mayden. 2012. Morphological diversity and phylogenetics of the darter subgenus Doration (Percidae: Etheostoma), with descriptions of five new species. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History Number 30:1-83.
The Spangled Darter (Etheostoma obama) from Tennessee is named after President Barack Obama. Illustration by Joe Tomelleri
Distribution of nine darter species in the subgenus Doration, including five new species of darters named after U.S. presidents and vice president (Etheostoma obama, E. gore, E. teddyroosevelt, E. jimmycarter, and E. clinton).
As I said on another thread, this is an alien invasive species...and should be eliminated from our land.
I think my cat would like to eat one of those Spangled Darters while I sit back and smile and imagine.
The Clinton species is misnamed, it’s not bent.
Cold-blooded scaley small-brained bottom feeders?
The first gay darter?
clinton fish: dark blue with white spots; stalks younger female fish; eats smaller fish and pretends it didn’t
gore fish: hyper-sensitive to environment, easily startled by natural phenomena (thinking they are artificially caused)
obozo fish: least intelligent fish in the lakes but watches how other fish act and copies; has others catch food, then eats it; steals food from larger fish and gives to fish in its school
How in the world do you cleanse academia of this poison?
Something is fishy in DC...
Judging by the name of these fish, I’m guessing they’re all bottom feeders.
This fish is identified by the mile long crap chain floating behind it.
What is needed is a new species of a tarantula or a leech, Hirudo obama would sound so nice! (Hirudo medicinalis is the common leech). Any biologist on Free Republic to do the necessary work?
Oh how precious…
Wow...never in my did I think I would one day be able to say
Here grandson, let me help you hook that obamafish for you...
Yeah I know he a slippery and slimy but the big mouth bass love him...as baitfish...
Wow...never in my Life did I think I would one day be able to say
Here grandson, let me help you hook that obamafish for you...
Yeah I know he a slippery and slimy but the big mouth bass love him...as baitfish...
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