The term “Lessepsian migration” is as yet of only limited circulation…
-Lessepsian Migration: The Influx of Red Sea Biota into the Mediterranean Sea by Way of the Suez Canal, Francis Dov Por
One of these South-to-North migrants is Tetrosomus gibbosus, the Camel Cowfish, an aquarium favorite but not easy to keep alive in captivity, and I wonder now if the Sudanese Abbāla tribes (from the Arabic word Ibl, Camels) might have had a jump on the Baggāra tribes (from the word Baqara, Cow, pronounced Bagara) once the Darb al-Arba’īn opened to the live-on-the-hoof trade, not long after Ferdinand de Lesseps opened of the Suez Canal in 1869.