More ID help please.... Starfish?

[CuzzA]

I've decided to go with the common name... Squishy.

 

[CuzzA]

Sigh. It seems to give you pleasure to call something what it is not. The fact that the internet says something is hardly compelling! The internet says EVERYTHING if you wish to look for it. By the way, there are no jellyfish either.

Added:
The old name jellyfish is now a sea jelly.
It is going to take a LONG time for this to catch on!

So you're telling me Harvard is wrong when they named their soft robots after.... "Starfish?"
“Soft” Robots: The Starfish Variation

 

[tursiops]

So you're telling me Harvard is wrong when they named their soft robots after.... "Starfish?"
“Soft” Robots: The Starfish Variation

LOL! I'm afraid the Harvard engineers need to talk to the Harvard biologists.....it doesn't even have the 5-part symmetry of a sea star! They could just as well have named it Frank, or Victoria.

 

[Steve_C]

shellfish are not fish
cuttlefish are not fish
standoffish are not fish
gruffish are not fish
selfish are not fish

 

[KeithG]

shellfish are not fish
cuttlefish are not fish
standoffish are not fish
gruffish are not fish
selfish are not fish

And brittle stars are not sea stars (just like cats are not dogs).

 

[kmarks]

And brittle stars are not sea stars (just like cats are not dogs).

And Planck's Constant is neither.

 

[sharky60]

What @sharky60 meant, I think, naming starfish is no longer proper. All starfishes should now be called sea stars.

yes, the proper name is Sea Star, "starfish" is common, but not proper. I volunteer at the Children's Aquarium at Fair Park, Dallas, and have had it drilled into me

 

[KeithG]

yes, the proper name is Sea Star, "starfish" is common, but not proper. I volunteer at the Children's Aquarium at Fair Park, Dallas, and have had it drilled into me

It seems my reply above was too obtuse. I apologize.

Brittle Stars are called Bottle Stars and not Brittle Sea Stars or Brittle Sea Fish since they are NOT Sea Stars or Sea Fish. They are Brittle Stars.

 

[Dan]

It seems my reply above was too obtuse. I apologize.

Brittle Stars are called Bottle Stars and not Brittle Sea Stars or Brittle Sea Fish since they are NOT Sea Stars or Sea Fish. They are Brittle Stars.

Not Sea Stars or Star Fish you meant.

 

[KeithG]

Not Sea Stars or Star Fish you meant.

Yah. What I meant and not what I said....