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- Mah Jongg Tile Set Description
-
- Tile Set Name: FISHES.TIL
- Subject: Tropical Fishes of the world
- Created by: Ron Gemeinhardt
-
- Description:
-
- As any aquarium hobbyist or occasional pet-shop browser knows, there is no
- shortage of color among the denizens of the world's oceans, rivers and other
- bodies of water. This tile set is composed of common (and not so common)
- aquarium dwellers--both freshwater and marine; vertebrates and invertebrates.
-
- This set uses a direct-replacement scheme of tile substitution. Each suit in
- the traditional Mah Jongg tile set has been replaced by a new suit, as
- follows:
-
- Freshwater fishes of Asia (replaces suit of dots; *=brackish water species):
-
- 1) Clown loach (Botia macracantha)
- 2) Red-tailed shark (Labeo bicolor)
- 3) Tiger barb (Capoeta tetrazona)
- 4) Black ruby barb (Puntius nigrofasciatus)
- 5) Archer fish (Toxotes jaculator) *
- 6) Mono (or Malayan angel) (Monodactylus argenteus) *
- 7) Pearl gourami (Trichogaster leeri)
- 8) Dwarf gourami (Colisa lalia)
- 9) Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens)
-
- Freshwater fishes of the Americas (replaces suit of bamboo):
-
- 11) Fancy guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
- 12) Angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare)
- 13) Firemouth (Cichlasoma meeki)
- 14) Tiger oscar (Astronotus ocellatus)
- 15) Neon tetra (Paracheirodon innesi)
- 16) Marbled hatchetfish (Carnegiella strigata)
- 17) Heckel discus (Symphysodon discus discus)
- 18) Green severum (Cichlasoma severum)
- 19) Dwarf gold ram (Microgeophagus ramerizi)
-
- Coral reef fishes (replaces suit of characters):
-
- 21) Common clown (Amphiprion ocellaris)
- 22) Yellow tang (Zebrasoma flavescens)
- 23) Long-nosed butterflyfish (Forcipiger flavissimus)
- 24) Oriole angel (Centropyge bicolor)
- 25) Flame angel (Centropyge loriculus)
- 26) Blue devil (Pomacentrus coeruleus)
- 27) Regal tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)
- 28) Royal gramma (Gramma loreto)
- 29) Picasso triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus)
-
- Miscellaneous aquarium dwellers (replace dragons):
-
- 10) Mystery snail (???)
- 20) Water flea (Daphnia sp.)
- 30) Florida seahorse (Hippocampus hudsonius)
-
- Tropical invertebrates (higher orders; replace winds):
-
- 31) Hermit crab (Dardanus megistos)
- 32) Starfish (???)
- 33) Chambered nautilus (Nautilus pompilius)
- 34) Lobster (Enoplometopus occidentalis)
-
- Tropical invertebrates (lower orders; replace seasons):
-
- 35) Nudibranch (Glossodoris sp.)
- 36) Sea fan (gorgon) (Gorgonarie acanthomuricea)
- 37) Featherduster worm (Sabella sp.)
- 38) Pipe organ coral (Tubipora musica)
-
- Freshwater tropical plants (replace flowers):
-
- 39) Amazon sword (Echinodorus sp.)
- 40) Madagascar lace (Aponogeton madagascariensis)
- 41) Jungle val (Vallisneria americana)
- 42) Cryptocoryne (Cryptocoryne sp.)
-
- Important note: To help you identify which tiles belong to these last two
- suits, each has a common "ocean/river floor" color for all four tiles. The
- plants are on a muddy brown bottom; the invertebrates rest on a dark gray
- "coral sand" floor.
-
- The notation ??? means no particular genus is represented. As for the
- chambered nautilus--OK, so you'll NEVER see one in an aquarium, but it is a
- pretty little beastie, isn't it?
-
- (Incidentally, if you look carefully, you'll notice only the dwarf gourami,
- pearl gourami and betta are blowing bubbles. These three fishes are able to
- obtain oxygen from air as well as water--hence the bubbles.)
-
- Some notes on legibility:
- These tiles use cyan as the base color, rather than light gray, which may make
- the default mouse cursor a bit hard to see. A bright cyan mouse cursor (color
- number 11) works very well, and a black background (color 0) also improves the
- display's appearance quite a bit. Also, since some of the fishes have rather
- long names, the lettering on the tile faces is designed to minimize fatigue
- and eyestrain, at the expense of a uniform character set.
-