Some fish I had never heard of before!

[blazeyreef]

My aunt has this ancient (yes this thing is freakin old) tropical fish book, and I was looking through and and found a lot of fish I had never heard of before...next time I go I am going to ask to borrow it so I can get some more names, but I did write a few down...

Butterfly Barb
Golden Pheasent - http://www.aqua-fish.net/show.php?what=fish&cur_lang=2&id=145

and a whole bunch more...never heard of any of these, are these just the "old" terms for fish we know of now day's like the glass fish used to be called chanda ranga and apple snails ampullaria gigas... ????[/quote]

 

[Devilishturtles]

The cool thing about science is that scientists can hardly agree on stuff.

Genus and species names change a lot... So I'm not surprised that the names have changed.

Names also vary by store. So what I might cal a gold barb, the store down the strrt might call it a ...shiny barb. Okay, that's a bad example, but you get what I mean.