The good news for a particularly aggressive type of Australian fish is that it has finally been recognised by science and given a name. The bad news is the name itself: blue bastard.
The fish got the genus name Plectorhinchus but was saddled with the species name caeruleonothus – the latinate version of the nickname given to it by anglers, who noted that it was blue when adult and “a bastard to catch”.
Jeff Johnson of the Queensland Museum, who discovered it was a separate species, convinced the journal Zootaxa that the name was “quintessentially Australian”. – The Independent