There is a fish called

boops boops!

It looks like a very nice fish.

“Sex determination in Boops boops is unclear. It has variously been described as a rudimentary hermaphrodite, with a few intersex individuals, or a protogynic hermaphrodite, with individuals starting out life as females, and some becoming male later on.”

Wow!

Looks tasty.

Lol-ed at the post/username combo.

I aim to please. :slight_smile:

I presume that’s it’s name in English. What is it called in other languages?

According to Wikipedia.de, its common namem in German is Gelbstriemenbrasse. In Finnish, it’s Boga, and in Greek, Gopa (Γόπα).

My favorite scientific name is the Hoopoe bird, “Upupu epops”.

Its scientific name comes from Greek βόωψ (boōps, literally “cow-eye”)

Fish with cow eyes? What’s next, cows with fish eyes?

Wanda

It’s “bogue” in English. Boops boops is the Latin binomial classification, if I’m understanding the link correctly.

Well, it’s no humuhumunukunukuapua’a, that’s for sure.

I struggle with pronunciation guides, but the Wikipedia page seems to say it’s pronounced “bo-ops bo-ops.”

Strange Man: I wonder where that fish has gone!

Transvestite: You did love it so! You looked after it like a son!

Strange Man: [Bends perplexingly long arms]

Strange Man: And it went… where-ever I… did go!

Transvestite: Is it in the cupboard?

Audience: Yes! Yes!

Transvestite: Wouldn’t you like to know? It was a lovely little fish!

Strange Man: And it went… where-ever I… did go!

Audience: It’s behind the sofa!

Transvestite: Where can that fish be?

Audience: Have you searched the drawers in the bureau?

Transvestite: [a strange, half-elephant/half-man creature wanders up out of nowhere holding a drinks tray]

Audience: It was a most elusive fish.

Strange Man: [twists the brass handles on the transvestite’s corset]

Strange Man: And it went… where-ever I… did go!

Transvestite: Ohhh! Fishy, fishy, fishy, fish!

Strange Man: A fish, a fish, a fish, a fishy, ohhh!

Transvestite: Ohhh, fishy, fishy, fishy, fish!

Strange Man: [Pulls the plug attached on the transvestite’s corset]

Strange Man: That went… where-ever I… did go!

Audience: Look up his trunks! Yes, in his trousers!

Chinese operas have the weirdest librettos…