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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-136-431470849 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Jeanne, On 24-Jul-11, at 8:21 PM, <jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > Does anyone have any knowledge of fish?If so, would you please tell > me what this might be. > Thanks so much. > http://www.panoramio.com/photo/56246460 > Jeannie Shermerhorn John Gilhen says the following: > This is a very interesting fish. It is a naturally occurring albino > form of the Wrymouth, Cryptacanthodes maculatus. It is fairly common > in the coastal waters of Nova Scotia but very seldom seen. Probably > most active at night they lay in ambush in tunnels in eelgrass beds. > Most often captured in lobster pots. We have several of the albino > form in the Museum collection. These albino forms are called > ghostfish. However, they do have pink eyes so I have been calling > them an albinistic form. I see it was caught Taken at St.Peter's canal, CB, NS. Can you tell me when, by whom, and how it was collected? Thanks! Chris Christopher Majka <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada * Research Associate: Nova Scotia Museum | http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/research-asfr.htm * Review Editor: The Coleopterists Bulletin | http://www.coleopsoc.org/ * Subject Editor: ZooKeys | http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/index.php/journal/index * Review Editor: Zootaxa | http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/taxa/Coleoptera.html * Associate Editor: Journal of the Acadian Entomological Society | http://www.acadianes.org/journal.html * Editor: Atlantic Canada Coleoptera | http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/PDF/index.html * Editor: Bugguide, Coleoptera http://bugguide.net Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war- horse at the sound of a trumpet. - Charles Darwin --Apple-Mail-136-431470849 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jeanne,<div><br><div><div>On = 24-Jul-11, at 8:21 PM, <<a = href=3D"mailto:jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca">jeannies@ns.sympatico.ca</a>> = wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div>Does anyone have any knowledge of fish?If so, would = you please tell me what this might be.<br>Thanks so much.<br><a = href=3D"http://www.panoramio.com/photo/56246460">http://www.panoramio.com/= photo/56246460</a><br>Jeannie = Shermerhorn<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>John Gilhen says the = following:</div><div><br></div></div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: = 13px; ">This is a very interesting fish. It is a naturally occurring = albino form of the Wrymouth,</span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "> </span><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: = 13px; "><em>Cryptacanthodes maculatus.</em></span><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: = 13px; "> </span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">It is fairly common in = the coastal waters of Nova Scotia but very seldom seen. Probably most = active at night they lay in ambush in tunnels in eelgrass beds. Most = often captured in lobster pots. We have several of the albino form in = the Museum collection. T</span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">hese albino forms are = called ghostfish. </span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">However, they do have = pink eyes so I have been calling them an albinistic = form.</span></div></blockquote><div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; = "><br></span></div><div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; = font-size: medium; ">I see it was caught Taken at St.Peter's canal, = CB, NS. Can you tell me when, by whom, and how it was = collected?</span></span></div><div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; = font-size: medium; "><br></span></span></div><div><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: = 13px; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: 'Times = New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Thanks!</span></span></div><div><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: = 13px; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: 'Times = New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><br></span></span></div><div><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: = 13px; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: 'Times = New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Chris</span></span></div><br><br><div = apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -web