CT_ Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 (edited) Ok so for the first week or two I was reading this forum I was confused by a few animal names. Mystery snails: I thought this meant snails who's origin (and or species) was unknown to the fish keeper. Like they just appeared in the tank one day and no one knows how; it's a mystery. convict chiclid: I thought this was colorful language for a chiclid that was aggressive and had to go into another tank for the safety of the rest of the community. Can we just get all the confusing names out of the way and list them here 🙂 Edited March 5, 2021 by CT_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Nope, I don’t think so. Just to many. Sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 I think they are called convict cichlids because of the black and white colour similar to old prison clothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Everyone gets confused, even Linnaeus, the great namer of plants and animals was befuddled sometimes. I grow alot of common milkweed in my fields because my honey bees like it and butterflies like it. Linnaeus named it Asclepias syriaca or in other words 'the milkweed from Syria'. The original type specimen was from Canada (not Syria) but had been mislabeled. So I now have 'Syrian Milkweed' that is actually native to my front yard. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Streetwise Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 (edited) Glowlight tetras are not GloFish®; they are Hemigrammus erythrozonus from Guyana. Marimo moss balls are not moss, but Aegagropila linnaei, a species of filamentous green algae. Blue-green algae is not algae, but Cyanobacteria, also know as Cyanophyta. Edited March 5, 2021 by Streetwise 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 Dwarf emerald "rasboras" are not rasboras at all, but danios. They were reclassified scientifically as danio erythromicron after further study. But, they are still mant times sold as dwarf emerald rasboras. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 14 minutes ago, Maggie said: Dwarf emerald "rasboras" are not rasboras at all, but danios. They were reclassified scientifically as danio erythromicron after further study. But, they are still mant times sold as dwarf emerald rasboras. The make matters worse, it is not even clear that there is a difference between Danios and Rasboras. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawn T Posted March 5, 2021 Share Posted March 5, 2021 @CT_ Your description of Convict Cichlids isn't off-base. My last one was exactly as you described. Ended up spending his life alone because he was a serial killer. 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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