What do you call female fish?

[sportfish58]

"what about a mermaid"

[choppa]

How do you tell the difference ....from the outside??????

images.jpg,,,,,,, i see your point Bruce


there is reference in "Wiki" to the term of "LAGL" for a female fish, derives from Lagos,,, meaning "women of the sea"

when you google "Lagl",,, you get a hardware store in UK??????

[BobbyJ123]

A pregnant goldfish is called a twerp. Not entirely correct, but sounds ok for crap...er carp.

[Lucky_Phill]

Interesting......... I reckon I'll source it.

stand by !


LP

[fat-buoy]

Jobfish

[Lucky_Phill]

Here is the ...uummmmm scientific answer.

Sex determination in fish is somewhat plastic!

For example a "bloke" one year may change into a "sheila" the next - and vice versa, for example barra, bream and coral trout. Other fish are much straighter when it comes to sex, being a male or female for their whole life, for example snapper, tailor and whiting.

So on naming the sexes in fish, the terms used are simply "male" or "female".

Those that change sex (sex inversion) can also be called sequential hermaphrodites.

Changing from male to female is called protandrous hermaphrodism:

changing from female to male is called protogynous hermaphrodism.

There ya have it.

LP

[cormorant]

But Phill you can tell as they have a straw in a pink drink. No need for technical answers

So I'm told allegedly.

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[Dignity]

Here is the ...uummmmm scientific answer.

Sex determination in fish is somewhat plastic!

LP

Phill, I didn't know they had any fish adult stores but it seems they have, maybe I have been fishing in the wrong spots which is why i have been struggling to catch any.

[BobbyJ123]

What do you call female fish?



"Oh, you bloody rippa," when I catch a 50 lb barra

[Mr Squiggles]

So they could be Barry Monday & Ruby Tuesday?