Dan Gotshall took the first photos of this new fish in 1985.
I led him to a colony I had seen a year prior. He snapped the pic and I collected the fish and several others.
We took it to Scripps where they pronounced it a new species.
Then they killed it, pickled it and sent it off to be made official.
7-8 years later, Allen and Randal did more
work on it and named it not after the discoverer but the island it came from. The discovery was mine...new photo is theirs .
The cur
ator at Scripps told me that they basically stole my fish and omitted the origin of it.
I took several new pics and am trying to load em now...
Gresham has reminded me that its not the discovery of a new species that matters , nor the adventure or the information that I have from watching the fishes behavior but the right protocol for crediting photos.
I will do that and thought the photo was the original by Dan Gotshall whom I just talked to recently over our fish so long ago.
Still, they did steal my fish and that should be illegal if anything.
Steve