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[*] posted on 1-9-2012 at 08:25 PM
How Bigmouth Bastard Got it's Name


Having read it in the "Sea of Cortez" I thought it was given by Ray Cannon. But no -

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/18/sports/sp-24124

Former UCLA biologist Boyd Walker, after all, is the one who bestowed the ignoble title upon this little fish with a disproportionately large mouth, a voracious bottom-dweller, and legendary Baja California author Ray Cannon is the one who made it stick, having written about it often in the 1950s and '60s.

The two fished together several times on collection expeditions in the Sea of Cortez, which resulted in the eventual identification of dozens of new species.

And as the story goes, after one such trip in the mid-1950s, Walker told Cannon that the first rhomalea brought to the university had been misplaced by one of his students. When he asked his class where "that strange-looking fish" went, another student asked Walker which strange-looking fish he was talking about, whereon the professor replied, "You know, that big-mouthed bastard."


If you can imagine, their mouths are as wide as their torso. When you bring them up it's always wide open, resembling a wind sock. They never attempt to close it and it remains open even after they're unhooked. Suprisingly, there appears to be little difference in that regard between the sexes.
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