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  • @felixwhynotEnglish
    7•3 months ago

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

    • dantheclammanMEnglish
      6•3 months ago

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

  • @[email protected]English
    5•3 months ago

    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🇱🇹English
      5•3 months ago

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

      • M137English
        3•3 months ago

        As written at the very start on Wikipedia:

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

  • PlumMEnglish
    5•3 months ago

    Boop

  • M137English
    4•3 months ago

    B. boops

  • @CeedoestreesEnglish
    1•3 months ago

    I will never not upvote the Boops boops.