Ha! I’m flattered you were moved to googling my conjecture 
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I hear Gillette is coming out with a fish that has seven butts.
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“The best thing to do is keep an eye on the fish and if it starts to have difficulties I would put it to sleep.”
Makes me curious what bit of morphology this oddity developed from. If I recall correctly, jaws developed from pharangeal arches, some of which also develop into gill support structures. Even more interestingly: many kinds of fish have a second set of internal “pharangial jaws” in their throat.
Which gets me wondering if any of the following might’ve occurred during development:
- Original mouth structure simply copied too many times.
- Pharangeal jaws somehow activated as external mouth structure instead.
- Other, unrelated pharangeal arch activated as external mouth structure.
- Something else entirely.
I thought “sleeping with the fishes” has Mafia-related connotations?
…but, maybe, the fish was talking too much…
…can a fish become a rat?
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Keep an eye on it, if it opens its not-mouth - it’s fish food.
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Definitely a case of you’re-what-you-eat, then.
Personally I am glad it isn’t a white pointer.
How does it taste taste?
That picture should require at least a click to get to, and be labeled NSFLA.
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