Talk:Slimehead

Roughy vs. Slimehead

I think this page should be moved to "roughy" instead of Slimehead. It has virtually one THOUSAND times the google hits and is obviously the favoured term both in science and common language. -- Unsigned comment by Deglr6328, 20:20, 18 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

For the sake of uniformity, Wikipedia's fish family articles use the common name given by FishBase (and by extension, Nelson's Fishes of the World). A quick glance at the trachichthyid species and their common names shows that of the species with official, common names, three are called "roughy" and four "slimehead" (and a fifth "slimey head"). The only reason "roughy" gets more hits via Google is because most of the listed sites refer to the orange roughy in particular; it's the most economically important species. The "favoured term" for a scientist would in fact be trachichthyid—but Wikipedia is written with the layman in mind. Of course, for those people searching for "roughy," a redirect will take them here anyway. No need for a move, IMO. -- Hadal 02:55, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe "roughy" is one of those "marketing names" a la "Chilean sea bass" or "kiwifruit". FishBase is not infallible, some of their common name choices are not easily explained. I notice that even when all references to orange roughies are filtered out, "roughy" is still showing a up lot more than "slimehead". So I'd support a move, even though "slimehead" is more fun. :-) Stan 03:34, 14 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]