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Marc van Arc wrote: :thumbsup: That's totally correct!
Wahoo! :D
New fish in a bit..
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Man, that was a flawless victory! Wow!
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i) Cross gaulish god is peaceful?
ii) My nearest city shares its name with a mythical river of the western US.

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Wow that was quick!
One more bucket of water and the farce is complete.
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iii) A common name for my family suggests bumbling pollination.
iv) In the year I was described, a reigning monarch reached the North Pole, the World Cup was held in Germany and a famous Australian was killed by a fish.
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Through some detective work, I have to guess it's , but I did not get where the gaulish god comes in.
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Suckermouth wrote:Through some detective work, I have to guess it's , but I did not get where the gaulish god comes in.
Spot on :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

i) Cross gaulish god is peaceful?
cruci cross
Glanis a gaulish god
pacific peaceful

ii) My nearest city shares its name with a mythical river of the western US.
The Buenaventura River.

iii) A common name for my family suggests bumbling pollination.
Bumblebee - Pseudopimelodidae

iv) In the year I was described, a reigning monarch reached the North Pole, the World Cup was held in Germany and a famous Australian was killed by a fish.
2006.

Your turn Milton :D
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I am easily confused with a previous riddle answer.

The same author who described the previous riddle answer described me as well. He had specimens of me when he described the previous riddle, but didn't know it.

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Hopefully that doesn't give it away, haha.
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Suckermouth wrote: Hopefully that doesn't give it away, haha.
I think your hopes have been fulfilled ;)
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Haha, let's see if this clue makes it clearer.

One of the two species was named for its eyes, the other was named for its teeth.
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Well I'm not going to be the blame for killing this game, so I'm gonna give a clue that should narrow it down a lot.

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Both fish are dark with light spots.
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Confused even more, thought it was a pimelodus or -della. :? Pimelodus cf. blochii

But not dark with light spots, I'll keep looking...
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Since the fish is described that should eliminate things like cf. and such.
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Since the fish is described that should eliminate things like cf. and such.
It was the only one I could find with searching for teeth (odont etc + Ortega-Lara), the PC search won't give me the full Ortega-Lara, tried them separately but no teeth reached out and bit me. Pimelodus cf. blochii is a pretty nice fish though, http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/images ... lodus.html

So I've started with Lehmann and teeth :beardy:
Then I got stuck here..
http://silurus.acnatsci.org/ACSI/field/ ... eople.html
:roll:
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BUMPIAU!!!!
One more bucket of water and the farce is complete.
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Oh jeez, I'm sorry for killing this. If we would like to continue with the last fish I had chosen, let me sum it up again:

"I am easily confused with a previous riddle answer.

The same author who described the previous riddle answer described me as well. He had specimens of me when he described the previous riddle, but didn't know it.

One of the two species was named for its eyes, the other was named for its teeth.

Both fish are dark with light spots."

New clues:

The previous riddle answer was the one named for the eyes (but its name doesn't include the word eye in any language). That means this riddle answer was named for its teeth.
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grokefish wrote:BUMPIAU!!!!
The winter nights are really drawing in huh? :YMAPPLAUSE:

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grokefish wrote:BUMPIAU!!!!
Welsh for bump? :d

I'm thinking something like . Am I close?
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Is the describer Armbruster?
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Jools wrote:?

Jools
That's it all right. Now we can get on with this game, haha. :-BD
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I can't quickly find the list of species that have been done but here is one.

I'm a northerner I am. Armour plated and don't like gravel!

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Me? LOL
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Last time I looked Birger, you didn't have fins. Gills maybe, but no fins. ;-)

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I got fins Jools:-)
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Some sort o cory I think
One more bucket of water and the farce is complete.
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Might be :d
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I couldn't find the list either and had to remember how to use my uploader...

Updated from March :YMPARTY:
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One more bucket of water and the farce is complete.
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grokefish wrote:Is it ?
Nope, it's a Cory as suggested.

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