jason@CS.UCLA.EDU (02/29/88)
For all you biologists out there, I am posting as a computer scientist with only hobby interests in ichthyology. I am interested in eventually trying to breed marine tropicals and would like to know how one goes about doing a literature search on a species, or better yet, how one identifies a given specimen in the first place, given only a local common name that varies every 10 miles. Please enlighten me as to the normal procedure one goes through in finding out what has been written about a specific kind of fish. Is there somewhere a universal catalog of species, or is there simply a disorganized literature with articles appearing in various journals in an ad hoc fashion. I am interested in any kind of info, including journals of the field, good books, well-known experts in the field, etc. ----Jason Jason Rosenberg Mira Hershey Hall 801 Hilgard Avenue jason@cs.ucla.edu Los Angeles, CA 90024 {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!jason (213) 209-1806