Portal:Fish/Did you know
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...that the armoured catfishes of the genus Panaque are notable for being among the very few vertebrates that feed extensively on wood?
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... that remoras have been used for catching sea turtles: when a turtle is sighted the remora with rope attached to its tail is released from the boat; it usually heads directly for the turtle and fastens itself to the turtle's shell, and then both remora and turtle are hauled in?
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...that guppy, one of the most popular aquarium fishes, was named after Robert John Lechmere Guppy (1836-1916) who discovered this tiny fish in Trinidad in 1866?
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...that carp was the subject of the first text on aquaculture, Fan Lee's "Treatise on Pisciculture," written in 473 BCE.?
