By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:25 AM on 2nd February 2011
There's one fish you are unlikely to find on the menu in British chippy - because there isn't a wall long enough to write its name on.
And even if there was, no-one would be able to order the national fish of Hawaii by its proper name.
Even experts at the Hastings Blue Reef Aquarium in East Sussex, which has just welcomed the new addition to their collection, can't wrap their tongues around the word humuhumunukunukuapuab'a.
Aquarium manager Kate Buss said: 'He's a beautiful-looking fish but none of us have got the faintest idea how to pronounce his name and it's proving a little embarrassing when we do our public talks and feeding demonstrations as he's the one fish in the toxic reef display that everyone always asks us about.
'We got someone to write it out phonetically but that really wasn't any clearer and we tried just calling him a wedge tail triggerfish, which is an alternate name, but no one's letting us get away with that either.
'Apparently the name was also included in a scene from the Russell Brand comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which was partially set in Hawaii.'
Even in its home waters the name proves a challenge.
Hawaiians use the fish to check if a new face is truly a native - if they can't pronounce it, they are not to be trusted.
Although it may look pretty, the fish is equipped with razor sharp teeth and is aggressive in the wild, often giving divers a nasty nip if they get too close. It is believed to be highly toxic if eaten.
And along with its piggish nose, the fish makes a disgruntled snorting sound when taken out of the water.
Despite the fish's growing fame at the aquarium, the triggerfish initially failed to make much of an impression on visitors.
'We had only had him on display for a couple of days when he disappeared entirely,' said Miss Buss.
'Apparently he had hidden himself behind rockwork at the back of the display and we only found him at feeding time when he came up to the surface and began begging our senior aquarist for food.
'He has a lot of personality and he rushes around the tank, eating and filtering sand and always looking like he's on a mission to get somewhere.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1352753/Aquarium-staff-welcome-unprounceable-Hawaiian-arrival-Humuhumunukunukuapuaa.html
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