Posted by Neredbojias on 07/10/07 06:05

Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:16:36
GMT dorayme scribed:

>> >>> A Groper is a beautiful fish that I see all the time down at
>> >>> Clovelly when swimming. The male is a magnificent powder blue,
>> >>> the female is a sort of muddy green, it is about 3/4 metres long.
>> >>> gorgeous things...
>> >>
>> >> Males are often magnificent with regard to females.
>> >
>> > But here's what groupers actually look like:
>> >
>> > http://blinkynet.net/comp/googlegrouper.html
>> >
>> > (...as linked from the main page shown in my sig.)
>>
>> That's what I thought! Dorayme said they were "magnificent" (-and
>> watch her bitch about the capital "d",) but that looks more like a
>> rather flattened version of Jabba the Hutt. From vague memories in
>> the past, I believed they were butt-ugly but couldn't picture any.
>
> It was because of your continued failure to understand about this
> d business that I did not trust your spelling of "grouper" and
> thought it referred to "groper" - (ignoring more obscene thoughts
> that you are fond of)

Not fair! I had a good joke all prepared.

> <http://www.amonline.net.au/fishes/students/focus/aviridis.htm>
>
> has a nice pic of what I often see. I was not sure if there was
> such a fish as a grouper, it seems that the ame is used:

Yes, although they look rather primitive even for fishes, *gropers* are
attractive. Interesting to note, however, that the female blue groper is
colored a rather faded orange. I wonder if that makes her as neurotic as
other females I've run across online?

> "Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily
> Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes"
>
> from Wiki.

That clarifies it beautifully except for the question of whether the
soft-rayed portions of the Perciformes' posterior fins were partially or
completely separated.

--
Neredbojias
A self-made man who worships his creator

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