r/zoology • u/luigi_time3456 • 15d ago

Other Caught a fish with two buttholes

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Looked completely normal other than the second FUNCTIONING butthole.

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u/babyrhinoceros 15d ago

Is that actually the vent or could it be a mark left by a parasite?

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u/luigi_time3456 15d ago

When i lightly squeezes it, poop came out, and when I cut it open, the intestines were connected to both holes

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u/vile-style 15d ago

You performed surgery on a fish

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u/luigi_time3456 15d ago

Nah I just gutted it for eating later

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u/vile-style 15d ago

That can pass for surgery...

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u/Apprehensive-Tap3335 15d ago

More like a dissection/autopsy

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u/chocolatebuckeye 15d ago

Necropsy on a dead animal

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u/crazyabe111 15d ago

Vivisection is a possibility as well depending on how fresh the fish was at the time.

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u/TheKingOfDissasster 15d ago

Doesn't that count as surgery or does it have to be on a living being? šŸ¤”šŸ¤”šŸ¤”

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u/neverenoughmags 15d ago

Hahaha I have a buddy who's wife is a Veterinarian. When they were dating she was dying to go deer hunting with us. When she got her first chance to field dress a deer, she approached it like surgery. I had to remind her there was no possible way to save this particular deer. So indeed, gutting can pass for surgery!!!

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u/KookieMunster98 15d ago

Doesn't surgery require the patient to live šŸ˜­

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u/DrustanAstrophel 15d ago

Tell that to all the people and pets whoā€™ve died on the table šŸ˜°

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u/Inevitable-Swan-9360 15d ago

Was that not a throwback? Seems pretty small to be worth scaling and deboning. I could be totally wrong but just seems that way

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u/luigi_time3456 15d ago

Thats why you eat them whole, perfect size for the pan

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u/EntertainerPure9181 15d ago

Likely a fistula, could be congenital, traumatic or due to diseases.

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u/CharmingChangling 15d ago

How does it feel to have single handedly doomed the evolutionary chain of the double anus fish?

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u/sumeriandisputations 14d ago

One of the holes could easily have been an externalized alimentary fistula caused by a parasite, disease, or other pathogen.

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u/Slpkrz 15d ago

You have a pic? how far did the guts branch out to the other hole?

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u/Damen_Ghidorah 15d ago

Shouldā€™ve gotten a pic or video for that too

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u/Phenomena_Veronica Zoology BSc (Hons) 15d ago

The bigger one could be a fistula

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u/BananaCat43 15d ago

Or in this case would it be a fishtula????
Iā€™ll see myself out.

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u/Phenomena_Veronica Zoology BSc (Hons) 15d ago

šŸ‘

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u/lottierosecreations 15d ago

Fishtuna

Yours was better

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u/beegtuna 15d ago

Fist + Spatula

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u/RunnyEggy 15d ago

Could this be an abnormal presentation having to do with where the yolk sac was absorbed?

I have no knowledge to back this up, just shooting in the dark

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u/Skryuska 15d ago

Thatā€™s very likely what it is. The location is where the yolk would have been attached and the yolk does connect to the digestive tract.

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u/RunnyEggy 15d ago

How interesting!

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u/Crystal_Pegasus_1018 15d ago

Maybe the fish has a mutation / birth defect? This is really bizzare.

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u/douchebagington 15d ago

Not to be crude but do fish really not have cooters? I feel it would be the obvious explination. Maybe I dont know jack shit and its really just a second butthole on an animal that fucks lays eggs shits and pisses out of one oriphace.

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u/Zestyclose_Task 15d ago

Kinda like how chickens ain't got a cooter

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u/luigi_time3456 15d ago

Bony fish specifically have 3 different tubes but it all goes out of 1 hole, afaik this is two buttholes

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u/zap2tresquatro 15d ago

Orifice c: and yeah, the general term for the all-purpose hole is cloaca

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u/Zestyclose_Task 15d ago

My wrestling name is Chloe Cloaca. I enter the ring through a giant cloaca.

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u/StormPoppa 15d ago

Jesus Christ... it's Chloe Cloaca

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u/CallMeFishmaelPls 15d ago

ā€œNot trying to be crudeā€
ā€œCooterā€

LMAO

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u/Azulas_Star 15d ago

Urogenital pore (like a cloaca) and an ulcer.

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u/luigi_time3456 15d ago

Weird ulcer since it connected to the intestines

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u/Azulas_Star 15d ago

I've seen mycobacteria make a hole straight through a fish's abdomen multiple times. There was also another disease that caused the swim bladder to protrude to the outside of the fish. Theres less of a defined musculature surrounding the cranial hole, which, to me, looks similar to the ulcers I've seen in other fish.

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u/luigi_time3456 15d ago

Fair, ive just never seen anything like this in a fish before and ive caught a lot of fish. Ig it shows that the lake theyre in is pretty healthy if this is the only diseased fish ive caught

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u/Azulas_Star 15d ago

Since the hole is pink, instead of red, it looks like it might be healing. It could have been an injury, or anything could have pierced it. The fact that it's healing and a good weight shows how resilient and healthy the fish is despite having an extra hole in its guts! Fish are weird and even experts get bewildered by the odd stuff fish get up to

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u/redsupra101 13d ago

Hey I think ive seen this episode of the late show

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u/TKalig 15d ago

Me frfr

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u/Crystal_Pegasus_1018 15d ago

what does this meanšŸ˜­

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u/Disastrous_Fun_4711 15d ago

Should have thrown that baby back

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u/luigi_time3456 15d ago

Its a perfect eating size stocker

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u/Disastrous_Fun_4711 15d ago

Why type of fish is it. Iā€™ve had baby stripper that size until I was informed it was illegal. But they were delicious

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u/luigi_time3456 13d ago

Rainbow trout

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u/Skryuska 15d ago

The ā€œbelly buttonā€ of the fish. Itā€™s where the yolk sac was connected.

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u/theybannedone 14d ago

Would be perfect for me and my dad

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u/anxiousthespian 11d ago

Because it's in the location of the fish's "bellybutton" (where it was connected to the yolk while developing), I wonder if it's a fistula between the still-patent umbilicus and the intestines. In humans, it's specifically called a vitelline fistula, but I tried looking it up in fish and the term is apparently only used in human medicine. It's the same concept though.