Saving the Formosan Landlocked Salmon
发布时间 2021-02-20 16:30:06 来源
摘要
In 1918 a graduate student named Masamitsu Oshima traveled to the then-Japanese colony of Taiwan with the goal of drawing a detailed map of its freshwater fish population. There, he came across an interesting red-spotted salmon specimen that his colleague Takeo Aoki had collected out of a stream high up in the Taiwanese mountains near Taichung. It reminded him of the trout that he saw back home in Japan, but not quite.
Oshima told his doctoral advisor Dr. David Starr Jordan — ichthyologist, first Stanford Chancellor and infamous eugenicist — about this new specimen and in November 1919 they announced the discovery of a new species of salmon: The Formosan Landlocked Salmon. It is one of Taiwan’s rarest fish.
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