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Thread: LargeMouth Yellow or Mahseer could they be related

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    Default Old catalogues and Mahseer tackle

    If you check out old Hardy catalogues and the like you will see special sections of super strong hooks, reels, lines etc specifically manufactured for fishing for these brutes. Apparently the colonialists didn't just F*** up the locals, they did their best to do the same to the fish as well. Of course you fished with a tie and a pith helmet in those days.

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    The Yellowfish (Labeobarbus) and Mahseer (Tor) are morphologically (physical appearance) similar due to the fact that India – although a peninsula of the Eurasian landmass today – was once part of the African continent and ultimately the Pangean landmass. Plesiomorphologically (before evolutionary adaptations took place), both Labeobarbus and Tor may have had the same ‘great grandfather’ – an ancient yellowfish/Mahseer species. As Chris pointed out, their taxonomy is almost identical, albeit at genus level they are separated. The classification process of the genus Tor and Barbus has been a controversial one. According to Hamilton (1822) and Günther (1864) there were discrepancies regarding the separation of fish classified under Tor, Barbus and Labeobarbus. I am not familiar with the exact morphology of the two genera, namely Labeobarbus and Tor, but it is ultimately this morphological variability (i.e. the difference between fin length, mouth parts, other exterior appendages, internal structures including skeletal measurements etc) caused perhaps by evolutionary processes of differing geographical locations and ultimately the nature of these environs (Africa and India) which has seperated them at Genus level. Although they are essentially one in the same. The analysis of Mitochondrial DNA might provide us with interesting results. Anyway that’s my two cents added.
    Last edited by boerie; 12-02-08 at 01:58 AM.
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