Talk:Triglidae

This should be merged with Prionotus_carolinus

"The pelvic fins have been thought to let the fish "walk" on the bottom, but..."

Should this sentence not read "pectoral" fins and not "pelvic" fins? --Bajutsu (talk) 22:12, 22 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

So which is more correct, Sea robin or Gurnard?

I had (up until now) never heard the term sea robin as a vernacular for this group.

Possibly another US / UK problem (for example starfish and sea stars)

But if anyone knows how to change the actual article to encompass the (aka Gurnard) it might remove some initial confusion.

I was told the sea robin was poisonous and you cannot eat it. Is this true?

Yes I think its very much true, I caught four sea robins this evening. I was about toss them over board due to their ugly looking nature and don't want to mention the weird noise they were making when caught, but the guy fishing next to me told he will happily taken them home for his dinner. He did say they are very tasty, but for me their look is not that palatable. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.191.175.232 (talk) 03:55, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

they are edible, an acceptable replacement for scorpionfish, trivia mention, in the group B-52's song rocklobster one of the lyrics metions a sea robin. they kinda croak like a toad. world record catch was over 16lbs. 72.235.238.233 (talk) 06:38, 24 November 2007 (UTC)too lazy to cite or edit article[reply]

I've heard that they turn red and screech when you take them out of water. Is this true? I hope it is, because that would be awesome. 65.98.148.124 (talk) 04:00, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

They make a sound that sound similar to a chicken clucking. I've caught them while fishing for Fluke or Sea Bass. The Tails are very good to filet and eat.

Sea Robin or Gurnard?[edit]

I was surprised to find the name sea robin used as I had never heard it before. The name gurnard is certainly the prevalent one in Australia and New Zealand. Is sea robin an American term? A quick search of Google and Wikipedia for "Triglidae" returns numerous hits for both common names with a possible majority of species identified as varieties of "Gurnard".

Perhaps this should be dealt with similarly to the genus Latrodectus where there are several well established common names for groups of species within the genus. The Latrodectus page uses the generic name for the title of the page with the common names redirecting to it. Following this principle the sea robin page would have the title changed to Triglidae with Sea Robin and Gurnard redirecting to it. What do people think?

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