a wrasse head purple.gif (41 bytes) purple.gif (41 bytes) purple.gif (41 bytes) purple.gif (41 bytes) clear.GIF (808 bytes)blackdot.gif (43 bytes) purple.gif (41 bytes) purple.gif (41 bytes) purple.gif (41 bytes) purple.gif (41 bytes)  a wrasse tail

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What's in a name? Australian Fish Biodiversity

1
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orange
roughy
what's in a name?
choose a number...
 4

bony fish dogfish starfish
crayfish
cuttlefish
jellyfish
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5
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Perch
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Idiophorhynchus andriashevi
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gemfish
flake
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nigroocellatus

3
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mullaway
jewfish
  

6
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butterfish
kingfish

Pharlapiscus
Trypauchen
vagina

What's in a name? Choose from the list of questions
...when you see the eye it will show you some images... when you answer the questions see the fish
Question 1 Why do we need difficult scientific names (won't common ones do) ?
Question 2 What problems occur when common names are used?
Question 3 What about scientific names?
Question 4 Why do names matter anyway (isn't close enough good enough)?
Question 5 Is a fish by another name still a fish?
Question 6 Do I have several fish or a bunch of fishes?