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Mastiglanis

PlanetCatfish wrote:Etymology: Greek, mastax, -agos = bite + Greek, glanis = a fish that can eat the bait without touching the hook; a cat fish.

Myoglanis

Myoglanis: Greek, myos = muscle, and also, mouse + Greek, glanis = a fish that can eat the bait without touching the hook; a cat fish.

Mastiglanis asopos

Etymology. —From the Greek mastix (mastigo, in latinized form) meaning whip, in allusion to the filamentous elements of pectoral and dorsal fins; and glanis, the name of the Greek catfish of Aristotle, a common denomination for fishes of the order Siluriformes. The last two letters of the word mastigo were suppressed for the sake of euphony. Gender masculine.

Myoglanis

FishBase wrote:CITATION: Romero, P., 2002. An etymological dictionary of taxonomy. Madrid, unpublished.
REMARKS: This dictonary resides in a database and will eventually be published. Etymology of names was made available to FishBase in spreadsheets. See in RMS as 45335_Romero.xls which is in Spanish.

Of river-fish, the male of the sheat-fish is remarkably attentive
to the young. The female after parturition goes away; the male stays
and keeps on guard where the spawn is most abundant, contenting himself
with keeping off all other little fishes that might steal the spawn
or fry, and this he does for forty or fifty days, until the young
are sufficiently grown to make away from the other fishes for themselves.
The fishermen can tell where he is on guard: for, in warding off the
little fishes, he makes a rush in the water and gives utterance to
a kind of muttering noise. He is so earnest in the performance of
his parental duties that the fishermen at times, if the eggs be attached
to the roots of water-plants deep in the water, drag them into as
shallow a place as possible; the male fish will still keep by the
young, and, if it so happen, will be caught by the hook when snapping
at the little fish that come by; if, however, he be sensible by experience
of the danger of the hook, he will still keep by his charge, and with
his extremely strong teeth will bite the hook in pieces.

bekateen wrote: ↑31 Aug 2022, 23:52Is the understood ancient Greek definition of a "cat fish" equal to "a fish that can eat the bait without touching the hook?"

bekateen wrote: ↑03 Sep 2022, 15:18But where does the "fish that can eat the bait without touching the hook" come from?

will bite the hook in pieces.

Jools wrote: ↑03 Sep 2022, 16:34As I say, a translation of

will bite the hook in pieces.

?

Jools

Jools wrote: ↑03 Sep 2022, 09:08No. But, I think there may be a second thing here, when did sheat-fish (which is the translation into English of Glanis by Aristotelain experts) get equated to catfish (the fish experts usage)? Linneaus? Silurus giving its name to Siluriformes?

Jools

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