This Fish Is Literally Named "Boops Boops"

I don't mean this specific fish; I mean the species. I don't know by which name this fellow prefers to be called.

The Boops boops has been known to the Ancient Greeks since at least the Fourth Century B.C. and was identified by the great taxonomer Carl Linneaus, who gave the species its Latin name, deriving it from the Greek for "ox-eyed". In English, it's most commonly called a bogue.

It lives in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Boops boops apparently good eating. At about a foot long, you probably need a few of them to make a meal.

-via Respectful Memes | Photo: Wikimedia user Roberto Pillon


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