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...week) and the other half testing his equipment himself. Each summer, as soon as the snow melts in the passes, he disappears into the lakes and streams thousands of feet above the sea in California's High Sierras. It is the domain of crimson-bellied Salmo roosevelti,* the rare golden trout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fish Story | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...small sea animal namesake: an amphipod crustacean, related to the shrimp, lobster and crab, which inhabits Magdalena Bay on the coast of Lower California, and which was discovered there by a Smithsonian scientist in 1938. The name is much longer than the quarter-inch crustacean itself: Neomeganphopus roosevelti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Presidential Crustacean | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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