# There is a fish called **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 11, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894 "2014-07-11T22:40:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eltro102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@eltro102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eltro102)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/1 "2014-07-11T22:40:26Z")
[boops boops](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boops_boops)! ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/2 "2014-07-11T23:19:45Z")
It looks like a very _nice_ fish. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/3 "2014-07-11T23:24:51Z")
“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! ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/4 "2014-07-12T06:35:00Z")
Looks tasty. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/5 "2014-07-12T07:06:48Z")
> [@Hopeful\_Crow](#): > > Looks tasty. Lol-ed at the post/username combo. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/6 "2014-07-12T15:48:35Z")
I aim to please. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/7 "2014-07-12T16:52:45Z")
I presume that’s it’s name in English. What is it called in other languages? According to [Wikipedia.de](http://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”. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/8 "2014-07-12T17:53:00Z")
_Its scientific name comes from Greek βόωψ (boōps, literally “cow-eye”)_ Fish with cow eyes? What’s next, [cows with fish eyes](https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2130/1517082639_8e634e6fe6_z.jpg?zz=1)? ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/9 "2014-07-12T19:55:55Z")
[Wanda](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095159/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/10 "2014-07-12T20:13:10Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I presume that’s it’s name in English. What is it called in other languages? It’s “bogue” in English. Boops boops is the Latin binomial classification, if I’m understanding the link correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/11 "2014-07-14T13:42:50Z")
Well, it’s no humuhumunukunukuapua’a, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/12 "2014-07-14T13:57:50Z")
I struggle with pronunciation guides, but the Wikipedia page seems to say it’s pronounced “bo-ops bo-ops.” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/13 "2014-07-14T15:09:32Z")
**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! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-a-fish-called/692894/14 "2014-07-15T02:24:50Z")
Chinese operas have the weirdest librettos…