Doug Hoese's my uncle. I never expected to see a reference to him crop up on
cavetex.
Aimee and I visited him and his family in Australia last summer, where we
got to visit the collections of the Australian museum and hear all sorts of
goby stories. He's quite the goby expert, and that's an understatement.
He's done quite a bit of collecting and taxonomy over the years, and has
found and described numerous species. He also used to take this japanese guy
named Akihito fishing but since Akihito's dad died it's harder for him to
get away.
Those that saw our slide show from our trip at the UT grotto last fall may
recall seeing a picture of him and his family wearing tie-dyed 'Keep Austin
Weird' shirts. (my uncle, not the emperor) There were also pictures of
various gobies - one was referred to, at least for a time, as 'Hoese's Cave
Goby'. (this may have been pre-publication, as now it seems I only find
'Hoese's Goby' and/or 'Hoese's Sand Goby', which may or may not be all the
same fish but may have usurped the name.) My recollection was that 'Hoese's
Cave Goby' was known only from Sydney Harbor, and was so called because it
lived in small grottos (shelter caves as it were) along the bottom, so in
spite of the name, was not cave adapted in the sense that we cavers would
use. It does sound as though this one is.
An interesting note, he attended UT as an undergraduate and related to me
that, although not part of 'organized caving', he would regularly go with a
few friends and explore caves on various ranches in the hill country.
Both he and my father, the only children in his family, are ichtyologists.
There is nothing useful to be deduced from this.
If you have an interest in the paper, I could email him and see if he'll
send me a copy. Unless you consider the number and position of pores on the
foreheads of fish an engrossing subject, it's probably not as interesting as
you might suppose.
Geoff
From: Mark Minton <[email protected]>
To: CaveTex <[email protected]>
Subject: CaveTex: Re: cave biology article
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:47:54 -0600
David Locklear said:
The following link shows the cover of a fish book that is available on the
web. <http://www.pfeil-verlag.de/04biol/abb/9902c162.gif>
The 1st page of the article is available in PDF, but you will have to
probably purchase the book or the download to see the rest of the article.
That's a scientific journal, not a book. UT doesn't have it
though, and it in fact seems to be rather rare. None of the libraries I
have access to subscribes it either.
Mark Minton
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