Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giraffe danio


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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 04:21, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

Giraffe danio

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Species does not seem to exist. Search of FishBase on 21-Jan-2023 revealed no species with the common name Giraffe, no hits on GScholar, etc. Possibly a variant of an existent species that became popular in the pet trade Kazamzam (talk) 02:14, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Biology-related deletion discussions. Kazamzam (talk) 02:14, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete No idea what species that is supposed to be about, no indication of where to look or whether it is anything other than a trade name or color morph. No basis for an article. - Nominator: I removed you !vote - your nomination is your !vote, you don't need to/get to make another one. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:36, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * @Elmidae - thank you for clarifying! I've seen other people do that in AfDs and wasn't sure if it was established practice or not. Will keep in mind for the future. Kazamzam (talk) 14:26, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment there is a brief description of this fish (as Devario "giraffe") in a scientific paper, Barcoding and Border Biosecurity: Identifying Cyprinid Fishes in the Aquarium Trade (Collins et al., 2012); in supplementary table S1. It is treated as an undescribed species. Collins cites another description by Cottle in the book Danios and Devarios, which I am not finding online, although Cottle does maintain a website, which has a page for this fish, albeit with very little information. The NCBI and BOLD taxonomic databases have entries, presumably due to Collins. Collins cites some additional sources, but they all appear to be general taxonomic works that don't mention this fish (and I found the Collins paper via this site, which also cites additional sources that are apparently general taxonomy). Plantdrew (talk) 20:58, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Nice! Apparently searching for "sp. 'giraffe'" would have been smarter. That is quite a lot of material actually. However, I assume being a an undescribed species in a potential new genus makes this a little more difficult to handle than the previous cases of undescribed species in an accepted genus. "Informal name in undescribed genus" seems rather fuzzy to base an article on. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:20, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * , Devario isn't a new genus. While there is a lot of material in the seriouslyfish page, much of borders on WP:NOTHOWTO (although I think HOWTO information is actually what a lot of people who might search the internet for this fish would want). Wikipedia policy aside, a lot of the HOWTO material at seriouslyfish is boilerplate apparently applicable to any species of Devario (or danionin?); the page for Devario xyrops (described in 2009) has many sections that are completely identical. Plantdrew (talk) 22:49, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Now why did I think this was a new genus. Bleh... -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:50, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Content might be put in the Devario article, but it's certainly not notable enough for a separate article. Edward-Woodrow (talk) 22:41, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not a valid species as recognized by FishBase and almost all other authority. May be merged as a section into Devario, but certainly not notable enough for its own article.
 * Jj1691 (talk) 20:09, 28 January 2023 (UTC)


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