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Larry, you have had some interesting comments. While I don't profess to being any kind of expert I will add to the question pool. In the next wet lab that I go to I want an Utsuri to necropsy. We talk about layer upon layer of beni to produce a deep red quality hi. I understand the philosophy behind Utsuri being black fish with white markings but is that real biology or is that one way of looking at them? In other words if I take my shiro and slice off the white skin does black pigment really underly the white ground or did the black actually change to white all of the way through?
Yes, I think of sanke as having spots of black and Utsuri as having bands of black, but I am not sure that how we describe the fish is biologically sound. I very well could be wrong, but I would think that the black actually changes to white. To flip the question when sumi comes up on a sanke can you cut away the sumi and expose shiroji or does the white change to black. My questions revolve around your questions about misnomers.
Rick
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