Sunday 12 April 2020

Longsnout Butterflyish (Grenada, 1980)

The following three sentences are taken directly from the Wikipedia entry for this diminuitive aquatic superstar:

Prognathodes aculeatus, the longsnout butterflyfish, is a species of butterflyfish found in tropical West Atlantic waters. It is also known as the butterbun, the Caribbean longsnout butterflyfish, or Poey’s butterflyfish. This species should not be confused with the banded longsnout butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus).

I wonder who was sufficiently angered by the confusion of the longsnout butterflyfish with the banded longsnout butterflyfish that they popped that edit into the ‘pedia…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prognathodes_aculeatus

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