Funny fish names

[naiad]

Why are there so many funny fish names?

Many of them are face-related...
Eelpout
Sweetlips
Lesson's thicklip
Biglip grunt
Harry hotlips
Rubberlip grunt
Rubberlip pleco
Gurnard
Horse-faced loach
Sucking loach
Thick-lipped Gourami
Kissing Gourami
Bristlenose
Hog-nosed Brochis
Dog-faced Puffer
Elephant-nose
Magnificent Foxface
Thick-lipped Grey Mullet
Thin-lipped Grey Mullet

And some just sound funny...
Carp
Haddock
Tench
Tompot blenny
Burbot
Dab
Tub gurnard
Lumpsucker
Chub
Guppy

I'll post any more that I find.

Lucia

 

[joe123321]

rofl rofl

Funny stuff:t

 

[penguinator]

Harry Hotlips? You cant be serious!?

 

[naiad]

A picture of Harry Hotlips... rofl
Last Refuge aerial image search: Harry Hotlips (Plectorhincus gibbosus), With movement, The Andaman Islands, underwater, India

 

[BennyB]

pff....i've seen hotter....

 

[deep thinker]

Same here but they look like good table fare rofl

 

[naiad]

rofl rofl rofl

And some of the longest Latin names...

Ctenopharyngodon idella Grass Carp
Gymnocorymbus ternetzi Black Widow Tetra
Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae Red-eye Tetra
Gyrinocheilus aymonieri Sucking Loach

I wrote all those from memory, so apnea can't be too bad!

 

[Waterysmile]

Come on, Lucia, you're making most of these up!

 

[chris the vis]

Yeah tell me about it, check these names out from south africa:
pyjama shark
soupfin shark...asking for trouble?
smooth-hound shark
seventy four
red tjor-tjor aka sand soldier
red roman
miss lucy aka red stumpnose
panga
oxeye tarpon
knifejaw aka cuckoo bass
javelin grunter aka mof grunter
duckbill ray
Captain fine aka white edge rockcod
bartailed flathead...ive been called worse
frans madam (french madam in english)
dassie (hyrax in english)
groovy mullet...quite popular at the disco
wildeperd (wild horse) aka zebra
hottentot
batfish... batman's pet fish

 

[naiad]

Imagine being stuck with a name like that! Poor fish! rofl
The entire sweetlips family...
[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweetlips]Plectorhinchus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

Some weird-looking fish...
http://download.ifilm.com/msn/2825596_MULTI.wmv?e=1172272800&h=50d6498d6e2ccd4243166f0bda11d4df

 

[Old Man Dave]

Why are there so many funny fish names?

Magnificent Foxface

Lucia

That's my brother you're talking about.

Dave

 

[foxfish]

Quite right too this is whiskerus foxfishus.

 

[cdavis]

Naiad,

You must be either a fishery biology type or seriously into aquairium fish.

Here is a couple of more for you:
Slippery Dick, aka Halichoeres bivittatus, a small Caribbean wrasse
Hogfish, aka Lachnolaimus maximus, large, very good eating Caribbean
wrasse. God made this one special, just for the spearo.

Connor

 

[chris the vis]

Damn! Imagine being known as the infamous Slippery Dick...haha
Oh well, here's some more odd common names for some fresh water fish from southern africa:
thicklipped happy
bubblebarb squeaker
dwarf- stonebasher
humpback largemouth

 

[island_sands]

Why are there so many funny fish names?


Lumpsucker


Lucia

Lumpsucker? let's not go there rofl

 

[island_sands]

Quite right too this is whiskerus foxfishus.

mmmmmm love the 'tache

 

[land shark]

dont forget hornedpout, bullhead

 

[Amphibious]

slippery dick fish - Google Image Search

I see Cdavis beat me to it

 

[Shadowkiller]

Some Aussie old slang ones:
Butchers Prick (now called maori wrasse)
Nigger (now called Backfish)
Mother-in-Law (Haemulidae family)

Ones still in use:
Bastard Trumpeter (my postgrad fish)
Swallowtail (Sara?)
Happy Moments (has highly venomous spines)

 

[island_sands]

Some Aussie old slang ones:
Butchers Prick (now called maori wrasse)
Nigger (now called Backfish)
Mother-in-Law (Haemulidae family)

Ones still in use:
Bastard Trumpeter (my postgrad fish)
Swallowtail (Sara?)
Happy Moments (has highly venomous spines)

ha! any names for bastard cheating men who cant keep their word?