Talk:Monkfish
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[edit] Monastery?
Does anyone know the truth of the following reference? Seems bogus to me, and I can't find a mention of it with a google search. I'm going to revert unless someone produces a reference to a credible source.
Monkfish gather and live in groups called "brotherhoods" and make "monasteries" to live in out of living clam shells.
[edit] Redirect correct?
Why does Goosefish redirect here? Anglerfish makes it sound like they're two different kinds of shallow-water anglerfish. A: it seems that goosefish is a general name for all these species. --Andrew 09:03, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Origin of name
These strange fish got their name from Monks who used to go to the docks and ask for the ugly fish that the fishermen would throw away. Little did they know that the difficult to get meat is most comprable to Lobster. 151.204.31.157 21:46, Jan 10, 2006 (UTC)
[edit] NO MERGE
Dont Merge this article as the two fish are of different species.
[edit] Merge with Anglerfish
As proposed three weeks ago, I merged Monkfish with Anglerfish. Read the monkfish page first, to see the explanation of the relationship of the name, and then the anglerfish page to see that all your favorite information has been preserved.
[edit] Don't merge ever
OK this has happened a couple of times but it is incorrect and has been reverted...to explain "anglerfish" is the wider group, "monkfish" refers to the subset of anglerfishes of the genus Lophius. Thus the amalgamation is inappropriate.Tullimonstrum 10:09, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
