c/wikipedia · by Meron35@lemmy.world · 1y

Boops Boops

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boops_boops

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10 Comments

felixwhynot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I read that it’s pronounced boh-ops but I still read it as boops

dantheclamman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

If it's wrong, I don't want to be right

hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 1y (4 replies)

The german name seems to be

Gelbstriemenbrasse

Also:

Like many sea bream, it is a protogynous hermaphrodite, i.e. the female sexual organs mature first and then the male ones. Young fish are therefore females, old and large specimens are males.

... interesting concept.

Justas@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Swedish one is Oxögonfisk, which looks like a name of a metal band or a weird chemical name.

Meron35@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

M137@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

As written at the very start on Wikipedia:

'from Ancient Greek βόωψ, literally 'ox-eyed'

Justas@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y

Ah, so Swedish is literally using "ox eyed fish" as the name.

Plum@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Boop

M137@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

B. boops

Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I will never not upvote the Boops boops.