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23 Apr 2022, 7:11 pm

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^ Arctic wolves, not "skinned wolves" (which I still can't find anything about).

https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=10404&start=18720#p9014198
The answer is Thamnaconus septentrionalis.
Because it's a local Chinese name. 扒皮狼/剥皮狼
And this kind of fish is only produced in the waters near China.
No one translated it into English. (except me)

Cool. Thanks for the Latin name, now I've been able to learn something about it.

Is it a popular fish in your part of China?

You're right in that there doesn't seem to be a common English name for it. I've seen a couple of names for the species in different publications, including "drab leatherjacket" (which sounds like something I'd buy from Amazon :lol:

) and "greenfin horse‐faced filefish" (in scientific articles).

Fish of the genus Thamnaconus are often called "filefishes" or "leatherjackets" (along with other fish from the family Monacanthidae), so that's probably as close to a common name as we'll get in English for now.

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26 Apr 2022, 9:23 am

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26 Apr 2022, 11:50 am

Murihiku wrote:

Cool. Thanks for the Latin name, now I've been able to learn something about it.

Is it a popular fish in your part of China?

It is the second largest commercial fish in China.
But I've never lived in a coastal city so I don't know how popular it is and I haven't eaten it.
It has different names in coastal cities in different dialect areas. "Skinned Wolf" is a colloquial name that I think is quite special.
Its Chinese academic name - 绿鳍马面鲀 - literally translates as "green fin - horse face - filefish". Exactly the one you mentioned.

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Cover your eyes, if you like. It will serve no purpose.

You might expect to be able to crush them in your hand, into wolf-bone fragments.

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28 Apr 2022, 7:05 am

^ Much appreciated. Thanks a lot for the info.
I like the shorter colloquial name. It'd be nice if there was a short name in English too.

Back to the topic ... I win. :mrgreen:

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28 Apr 2022, 9:28 am

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03 May 2022, 7:13 am

Have a break for a while.

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05 May 2022, 9:33 am

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05 May 2022, 9:37 am

bow-wow

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05 May 2022, 9:47 am

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