Talk:Arowana

message: The picture shows an Arowana with droopy eye syndrome. It is not healthy and is therefore a misleading picture of a healthy Arowana fish. Change it... 61.3.190.30 (talk) 10:31, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I have always read that arowanas are "living fossils" and so forth, so I added some information on fossil species. I still have to do a lot of research (I don't even 220.255.154.145 (talk) 07:45, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Fossils

message: The article makes the claim that this family is the only family of freshwater fishes found on both sides of the Wallace Line.  This is not true, for example family Centropomidae (giant perches) which is widepread in the Indo-Pacific includes species on both side of this line, two cases in point being Nile perch Lates niloticus and barramundi lates calcarifer.  Indeed the latter species itself is found in coastal areas of east Africa, northern Australia and Asia to southern Japan.  Unless someone provides justification for retaining the current statement, I will remove it in a few days. Nick Thorne 12:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Centropomidae is not exclusively freshwater; Lates calcarifer is diandromous (that is, migrates between fresh and salt water). --Ginkgo100talk 20:07, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and many fishes recognised as freshwater species have life cycles that involve a marine or esturine phase.  L.Calcarifer is actually catadromous, spawning in esturine environments.  Freshwater eels actually migrate right out into the oceans to spawn, would you not consider them to be freshwater fish?  What about trout?  Rainbow and brown trout will often proceed to sea if given the chance, yet no one would seriously consider them not to be freshwater fish.  thus to say that Centropomidae are not freshwater fish is a false dichotomy.  the claim about the Wallace line still fails. Nick Thorne 23:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Trout belong to subfamily Salmoninae, which is hardly a freshwater family. Perhaps the article should read that Osteoglossidae is the only exclusively freshwater family, or the only family whose members are obligate freshwater fishes, to be found on both sides. This is significant because a fish that cannot ever survive saltwater at any stage of its lifecycle theoretically cannot migrate across this line. Scleropages did because of continental drift. --Ginkgo100talk 18:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wallace Line

message: The article implies that the arowana is known as "dragon fish" by the Chinese. Could someone confirm this? Drutt (talk) 08:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Dragon fish

message: The Heterotididae cannot be treated as subfamily without including Pantodon – indeed without including essentially all Osteoglossoidei living and extinct – in the Osteoglossidae: the freshwater butterflyfish is a closer relative of the arowanas than either is of the arapaima. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 13:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Systematics wrong

message: Food for thought.  Why not include the fact that the species Scleropages Formosus is listed as Endangered by the U.S.A.  Or the fact that Arowanas are highly controvercial due to import regulations in many, many countries.  Include issues such as micro-chips, birth-certificates, and smuggling indicators. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.200.2.50 (talk) 20:33, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Endangered Species and Illegal Black Market

message: Acording to Fishbase, Arapaimidae are the bonytounges. They were formerly part of the Osteoglossidae. Thus the bony tounge and the obligate air breathing are features of Arapaima gigas and Heterotis niloticus and not the Arowana. Osteoglossidae is simply named ″Arowanas″.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.12.29 (talk) 19:51, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxonomy 

message: The bottom link of this section of the "external links" section is a 404 error. 
I would suggest this as a new guide arowana-fish.org  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChristopherMathew (talk • contribs) 21:24, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead Link in the External Links Section 

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