Talk:Centrolophus

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Requested move 28 March 2020

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Page moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 00:39, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Black ruff → Centrolophus – This species/genus has multiple vernacular names that are in common use. Worse, the "official" name recognized by FAO is "rudderfish", while AFS uses "black ruff" (see FishBase). Among the common reliable sources that we use, FishBase uses "rudderfish" while IUCN gives that name first but also recognizes "black ruff" and "blackfish". This seems to be a classic case of widespread species with different naming traditions in different parts of its range, and thus a case where the scientific name should be used. As a monotypic genus, the article shoud be under the genus name. Micromesistius (talk) 10:27, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
 * move - Centrolophus has 920 results on Scholar, “black ruff” has only 213, and the first few results are not for this fish. Rudderfish has 1230 hits but many are for other fish.  The genus name is best.  Disambig pages should be made at the other names.  --awkwafaba (📥) 04:48, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Support. Only sensible article name, and consistent with practice with regard to other articles. Andrewa (talk) 12:19, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Support, scientific name is PRECISE and CONSISTENT with most fish genus articles. Scientific name is most commonly used in reliable sources. Plantdrew (talk) 04:22, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Support the use of the scientific name, - in this case the genus name as the taxon is monotypic. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:12, 8 April 2020 (UTC)


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