#doesn't belong to the gender that nearly all the other fish do for some reason
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This fish has committed medical malpractice. Source:
#found this guy because i was reading a grammar of papapana#and the word for this fish in the language#“oini'a”#doesn't belong to the gender that nearly all the other fish do for some reason#seeing the english name caught me offguard#the reason it's called that in english is#surgeonfish is a name for a group of fish that have scalpel shaped bones at the base of their tail#and convict is i assume the black stripes on white
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