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The phrase "a fish called" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the context of naming or referring to a specific fish, often in a humorous or metaphorical way, as popularized by the film "A Fish Called Wanda."
Example: "In the movie, there is a character named Wanda who has a peculiar obsession with a fish called 'Nemo.'"
Alternatives: "a fish named" or "a fish referred to as".
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They subsisted on lamb, carrots, potatoes and a fish called flathead.
Unique to the lake is a fish called the golomyanka, of the family Comephoridae, which gives birth to live young.
He found a fish called aiglefin, which he said he thought was similar and came from the Norwegian fjords.
(As I wrote long ago, a fish called Bluie is mourned and its remains honored, more or less; a bluefish eaten for dinner is merely discarded).
In the real world of perception and marketing, a fish called "slimehead" — a real name, by the way — is probably not going to fly off the menu.
They also suffer indirectly, through the loss of their main prey, a fish called the capelin, which has begun to swim northward in search of cooler waters.
Ctesias states that in India there is a fish called the platanista with a dolphin's beak and tail, but 24 ft. long.
They have also been equipped with a genetic on-switch from a fish called the ocean pout, a distant cousin of the salmon.
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Gerry Quinn, most recently the executive chef at A Fish Called Avalon in Miami Beach, cooks in a jazzy style that could be called Florida Modern.
(That said, he noted that his current project was a stage musical adaptation of his 1988 film, "A Fish Called Wanda").
A Fish Called Obi-Wanda #PutStarWarsInOtherFilms.
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