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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:16 pm
by Phaedrus
To shorten a link, instead of encapsulating the link with the (url) (/url) tags, put the link into the first tag and then put some text in between the tags.

Like so:

(url=http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/species ... e=obscurus )linky!(/url)

be sure to replace the round brackets for square ones and you'll get this

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:27 pm
by YBeNormal
Or use TinyURL.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:46 pm
by Phaedrus
There's always that. I used to have the firefox tinyurl extension that would let you copy links as tinyurl links. was very handy. i should look that up again.

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:04 am
by Sean
Takifugu obscurus

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:43 pm
by Pufferpunk
Wow Sean, Good guess! Although Dr Ebert only has a drawing of it, it does look like that fish a bit. Still am thinking parrot puffer though.

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:24 pm
by Jason
I'll have to try that tinyurl idea...some links i find are horribly long to even cut and past they look like a paragraph.


As for the takifugu obscurus there are a few pics on the net from the site discussing Genome mapping of species in that genus and on fishbase. Better get going before i'm noticed surfing the net :P

Jason