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Tiktaalik has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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May 8, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
July 19, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept

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Rosea

Latest comment: 3 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion

Would I be correct in thinking that its species name rosea was derived from the fossils' pinkish colour? Vitriol 18:11, 10 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

The press release at Reference 5 (doc) says "Instead of using the traditional Latin or Greek to name the fossil, the team consulted Nunavut residents, who suggested Tiktaalik (tic-TA-lick), the Inuktikuk word for large, shallow water fish. The second part of the name, roseae, honors an anonymous supporter. Other funding came from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society and the researchers’ home institutions." A few other fishy things have rosea in their names, iirc. ...dave souza, talk 08:42, 11 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

It might be worth mentioning in the article that the anonymous supporter's first (or Christian) name was Rose, based on the use of -ae as the default Latin feminine genitive in taxonomic contexts (even when it doesn't really make sense from a grammatical point of view) as well as sources such as this one. Sure, The Economist is neither peer-reviewed nor a specialist source, but it is more than good enough to source something that is glaringly obvious from the Latin name anyway.--Leptictidium (mt) 21:11, 6 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Ah, so it's not a sub rosa reference then (which I guess would be rosae anyway). Arlo James Barnes 23:08, 30 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Additional information on pelvic fins

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I was hoping to add more information about the structure of the pelvic fins, since there isn't much information currently. There's an informative journal article I found on JSTOR which describes, in detail, the anatomy of what can be observed about the pelvic fins of Specimen MCZ 11916 from the Museum of Comparative Zoology. I would like to use it as a source to add more information.

The article is called : "Unique pelvic fin in a tetrapod-like fossil fish, and the evolution of limb patterning"

Jeffery, J. E., Storrs, G. W., Holland, T., Tabin, C. J., & Ahlberg, P. E. (2018). Unique pelvic fin in a tetrapod-like fossil fish, and the evolution of limb patterning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(47), 12005–12010. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26564494 NeotibicenRex20 (talk) 14:38, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Rosea

Additional information on pelvic fins