How do you pronounce BICHIR ?
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Thats my tomato frogs name XD. Jabba the hutt. Legendary
It's Buh-sheer.
The name was an Arabic dialect of spiny fish which live in the Nile river (Abushir). During Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, one of his naturalist who 'discovered' them, used the local dialect Bushir and gave them the French spelling 'Bichir'. That 'ch' makes a 'sh' sound, not a 'kuh' sound. Because it's not a common name people easily mistake it. Google also does a horrible job at giving you the right answer too, but most results on Google won't even give you the right species when you search them, online is filled with misinformation.
The name was an Arabic dialect of spiny fish which live in the Nile river (Abushir). During Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, one of his naturalist who 'discovered' them, used the local dialect Bushir and gave them the French spelling 'Bichir'. That 'ch' makes a 'sh' sound, not a 'kuh' sound. Because it's not a common name people easily mistake it. Google also does a horrible job at giving you the right answer too, but most results on Google won't even give you the right species when you search them, online is filled with misinformation.
The names Abushir, Abshire and Bushir are still spoken today in Egypt, granted less often as P. bichir from Egypt are likely extinct now.
I’ve been calling them Bah-Chars like charzard and don’t care to stop
One otherwise great shop here only knew them as poly eels!
Petmart and petco here in cali they are know as dinosaur eels.
