just remembered that wikipedia has a list of fish named after other fish - ThreadSky

depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social • 19 days ago

just remembered that wikipedia has a list of fish named after other fish

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And this is exactly why I follow the Depths of Wiki!
I used to skip classes in junior high to read the encyclopedias in the school library…

daberhasher.bsky.social•19 days ago

His name is fish

dwegmull.bsky.social•7 days ago

Is there a list of tomatoes named after other fruits, like grape tomatoes, etc?

tinysodacans.bsky.social•18 days ago

This definitely isn’t what happened, but I’m choosing to believe that some random fish really saw a carp one day and was like

*SUCC*

and a scientist saw this and changed the field of freshwater biology forever.

kacemlemoel.bsky.social•18 days ago

A list of fishy fish names. In other words.

zatytom.bsky.social•19 days ago

Like the symmetry of there being both shark mackerel and mackerel sharks.

illimar.bsky.social•18 days ago

and the fact that a salmon shark is a subgenus of mackerel sharks

simonproven.bsky.social•18 days ago

Mackerel shark / Shark mackerel

leftoftheaisle.bsky.social•18 days ago

Fishie McFish, you have a call on the white courtesy foam.

dleavitt.bsky.social•18 days ago

Some days you're the mackerel shark and some days you're the shark mackerel

ekkaia00.bsky.social•18 days ago

I mean, it makes sense. I'm a human who was named after another human

pikkedmen.bsky.social•18 days ago

i misread pikeminnow and pikminnow the pikmin brainrot is getting to me

saltwatersoapbar.bsky.social•18 days ago

I used the fish to name the fish

k0stra.bsky.social•18 days ago

English fish names are so unimaginative and boring.

edplaysbass.bsky.social•18 days ago

Is there also a list of birds named after other birds? Like the eagle owl?

fanefengrave.bsky.social•18 days ago

Half of these sound like Shakespearean insults.

normal-person.bsky.social•18 days ago

Sounds like a list of mar-a-largo women nicknames

tunatm.bsky.social•18 days ago

trout sweetlips was snubbed!!

rote-wuehlmaus.bsky.social•19 days ago

'carpsucker' sounds like something they'd make up over on tiktok and instagram to get around the censorship of the word cocksucker

bakabakemono.bsky.social•18 days ago

Is that a, shiny ratatata?

rote-wuehlmaus.bsky.social•18 days ago

no it's a leftist raticate

depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social•19 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fish_named_after_animals#Named_after_fish

ladymenopause.bsky.social•18 days ago

Wikipedia should be listed as a Mood Stabilizer drug, Pros and Cons.

ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social•19 days ago

Carpsucker - new insult unlocked.

zatytom.bsky.social•19 days ago

Further down there's "Trout sweetlips"

shipscrewunscrewer.bsky.social•18 days ago

You're such a salmon smooth-head

ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social•18 days ago

Thank you! 🥹

darrensilk3.bsky.social•19 days ago

Wikipedia official policy - we don't like pages that are just lists - meanwhile, here's a lot of pages that are just lists.

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