This is a bad sign.. a Willis PhD student allowed to not use SMB gape but instead peacock cichlid. If Willis didn't know of any SMB gape data, how am I going to find it? I'll try to get my hands on the Hill paper and see what it says, and then add the cichla curve.. later today.. tis Easter with a beautiful sunrise and wife's Bday at same time.. I am fixing the dinner.
I estimated smallmouth bass GW using published equations for peacock cichlids Cichla ocellaris (Hill et al. 2004
PS.. a 20" cichlid/SMB with 2.3" vs a LMB at 2.5 while HSB at 1.5".. anyone believe that?
PPS: Willis let a PhD student pull one over on him. The Hill paper does not say SMB=cichlid, it says LMB=cichlid. And that explains the 20" data.
Given the morphological similarity of largemouth bass and peacock cichlids, we predicted that a simple method of estimating gape size used for largemouth bass (i.e., external mouth width; Lawrence 1958, Hambright 1991, Johnson and Post
1996) would also estimate peacock cichlid gape size
Last edited by DNickolaus; 04/20/14 07:32 AM. Reason: Hill paper quote
