Talk:Cetomimidae

Would it be better to have this page at Cetomimidae with Flabby whalefish as the redirect? Personally, I find it quite ridiculous to have "common names" for poorly known marine organisms, given that these common names will almost never show up in conversation, while almost all discussion of the organisms takes place in scientific literature where the scientific name is used.

I know google hits aren't the be all and end all, but there are 48,000 google hits for "whalefish" (many of them unrelated to Cetomimidae), 1,530 for "flabby whalefish" (many of them mirroring Wikipedia), and 102,00 for Cetomimidae. It seems like a joke to pretend that "flabby whalefish" are what this group of fish is most commonly known as.

Also, today's news articles about the Johnson et al. paper use Cetomimidae far more than "whalefish" (and don't use "flabby whalefish" at all). However, the news articles I saw seem pretty confused; it appears the journalist believes Cetomimidae is a species ("a type of whalefish"). While this is an example of usage of "whalefish" as a common name, it's presented in such a misleading way that I got a much better idea of what was going on through the scientific name.

Spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii) is a particular egregious example of this phenomenon; it's known from 3 specimens and has never been observed alive. It's not like anybody is having a conversation saying, "I saw a spade-toothed whale today". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.104.39.2 (talk) 20:34, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Suspicious Second Source
One of the sources for this page, MetaPress, looks suspiciously not credible. I'm not sure if it was once hosted an article that was credible, but it doesn't look that way now. 2600:8807:C191:D100:850B:F63E:2271:399A (talk) 02:47, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

Mirapinnidae and Megalomycteridae
I merged in the page for Mirapinnidae and redirected all the formerly-thought-separate names into this page. I took a stab at rewriting pieces but am not sufficiently expert to know what is true only of one morph and what is true of the whole family (and perhaps even the experts don't know). I also left the old classifications in because I wasn't sure how they mapped to the cetomimidae classifications (and maybe they don't, yet). Anyway, this all still needs more work. /blahedo (t) 04:37, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

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