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florida flag fish
Look guys, misnomers are pretty common and very difficult to "correct,"
especially if they're already widely used. They just become part of the
quirks of a language. One example: Moses parting the Red Sea. It was not
the red sea that he parted, but the sea of reeds. Just a mistranslation,
much the same as in the jordanella floridae case.
It's not a flag fish (which is a killifish) , nor is it even named after
Florida (as Doug Karpa-Wilson pointed out that floridae refers to "florid"
or colored like a flower). I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, that
it's a pup fish.
Time to move on from this troll ;)
-Frank
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