1652: Fish with Hellish Names Jun 23, 2019
While there are 'angelfish', in the scientific names of many other seedwellers, there are references to Hell. Indeed, it is known that the ichthyologist (studier of fish) Carl Leavitt Hubbs had a penchant for doing this, such as with the 'blind swamp eel', which bares the scientific name 'Ophisternon infernale', and was originally 'Pluto infernale', both words for Hell in Latin. Moreover, this is even more obvious in the genus for widemouth blindcats, a type of catfish, is 'Satan eurystomus'.
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