Good Enough to Eat: 9 Fish Named After Common Foods

Good Enough to Eat: 9 Fish Named After Common Foods

Written by Leisure Pro Staff
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Published on October 15, 2011

We humans can be so weird when it comes to naming species, and it begs the question: do these animals really resemble the things we are naming them after, or is it purely for our own amusement? Maybe scientists got to naming these species on an empty stomach. There must be really scientific reasons for naming them after common foods…any guesses?

Pancake Batfish

Lemon Shark

Chocolate Chip Starfish

Yellow Tang

Sea Cucumber

Butter Sole

Milkfish

Oreo Dory

Pumpkinseed Sunfish

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