sick goldfish call

sick goldfish call
a query from a member of the public addressed to a museum scientist on an ichthyological topic, occasionally and actually about a sick goldfish. Implies that the query cannot be answered, as museum scientists work with pickled fish and are not experts at maintaining fish in aquaria, or the query lacks sufficient detail to be answered with authority, as in failure to observe key characters used in identification of a caught and discarded fish

Dictionary of ichthyology. 2009.

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