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Boops boops

Boops boops , commonly called the bogue, is a species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic. In the fourth century BCE, Boops boops was documented by Aristotle as box (Greek βῶξ) in his Historia Animalium. In the early third century CE, Athenaeus, in his Deipnosophistae, also called the fish box and suggested that the name came from the sound that the fish makes (Greek βοή, "roar"). The name boops (Greek βόωψ, "ox-eyed") is mentioned due to the fish's large eyes. The first scientific description comes from Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of Systema Naturae as Sparus boops. It was later reclassified under the genus Boops.

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