On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:35:40 GMT, Puester wrote:

> sf wrote:
> > On 2 Jun 2006 23:07:43 -0700, lorento wrote:
> >
> >> nancree wrote:
> >> > Here's a photo of a dolphin fish (not the mammal, like Flipper <g> )
> >> >
> >> > http://www.matty-j.com/images/Dolphi...Costa_Rica.jpg
> >>
> >> Are you sure? I think dolphin fish refer to a mammal fish.
> >
>
> There are too many animals called "dolphin".
>
> dolphin = Flipper, the mammal, often found in aquarium shows
>
> very different from:
>
> dolphin = dolphin fish = dorado/mahi-mahi often found on a plate
>

Back when I was a kid, Flipper hadn't been on TV yet. Dolphin were
fish and porpoises were mammals. Maybe the marine biologists hadn't
decided the fine differences between them yet, who knows (who cares)?
In preFlipper days, we didn't know the fine differences between
smaller cetaceans. So when I say dolphin, I mean the fish. If I'm
talking about the mammal, I'll specify what I'm talking about by
saying bottlenosed Dolphin.
http://www.nhm.org/research/mammals/...p/dolporp.html

With that said, I've learned to call the fish Mahi-Mahi because
I'm on the West Coast now and that's what they say here.



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