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Boops Boops

In the fourth century BCE, Boops boops was documented by Aristotle as box (Greek βῶξ) in his Historia Animalium.[3] 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"). [6] The name boops (Greek βόωψ, "ox-eyed") is mentioned due to the fish's large eyes.[4][5] 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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