A reel honor: Scientists name new fish after Obama

CNN ^ | Sep. 2, 2016 | Eugene Scott

[PROCON]

Washington (CNN)It isn't exactly a squid pro quo, but scientists are naming a new fish after President Barack Obama partly as a way to say thanks for his decision last month to create a new protected area off the Hawaiian coast.

National Geographic reported Friday that the maroon and gold creature, which was discovered 300 feet deep in the waters off Kure Atoll, is the only known fish to live within Papahānaumokuākea, an expanse of coral reefs and seamounts home to more than 7,000 species.

One looking for the fish's official name, however, is likely to stay hooked -- a formal description of the species isn't expected to be published until later this year.

[fella]

Is it a poisonous bottom feeder? Or a vicious predator that destroys the young of other fish for fun and not food?

[PfromHoGro]

Fishy McFishface?

[Know et al]

Obamackerel

[DarthVader]

OToadFishUla!

[jessduntno]

We been calling them sucker fish since i was a kid.
They drop the er in sucker?

[W.]

Its got to be the fish that eat all the crap that sinks to the bottom of the tank. The 0turdsucker! Say, that fits nicely! Or, the Mediafish, as a sub-genus...

[BroJoeK]

Naw, what else would you really expect?
It's a paler version of the real thing: Filamentosus Tosanoides:

Obama Tosanoides:

[beethovenfan]

Must be a bottom feeder.

[tet68]

Unfortunately, Pacific Slime Head was already taken.

[CincyRichieRich]

Scientific Latin name “interlopus maximus”

[bankwalker]

Ill be back to comment shortly.

I've got to go take an obama.

[laplata]

A bottom feeding scavenger of some kind.

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You beat me to it.

[BOOHA]

ROCKFISH

[snarkpup]

I bet it’s very slimy.

Not as slimy is this guy (just reported at the Daily Mail):

Is this the CREEPIEST animal ever? Discovery Channel host finds massive black slug as big as a small dog lurking the tide pools at a California beach

[Pollster1]

Characteristics of this fish: toxic, slimy, parasitic bottom-feeder.

[TigersEye]

Sucker Fish? That’s not new.

[faithhopecharity]

http://www.academia.edu/4889824/Homosexual_behaviour_in_a_cavernicolous_fish_Poecilia_mexicana_Poeciliidae_Teleostei_

[left that other site]

A “Fish Faced Enemy of the People”?

(((Hat Tip To Mel Brooks)))

[camle]

they already have one named for democrat voters: sucker

[M Kehoe]

The bifurcated sucker fish?

That was bad.

5.56mm