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Corphish ヘイガニ Heigani #341
Artwork from R/S/E
Type Water ' Unknown Unknown Blue-Striped Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown	Category Ruffian Pokémon
Abilities Hyper Cutter or Shell Armor Shell Armor Blue-Striped -----	Exp. at Lv. 100 1,640,000
Regional Pokédex numbers Kanto #— Johto #- Hoenn #129 Sinnoh — Unova Not in any regional Pokédex
Regional Browser numbers Fiore R— Almia R— Oblivia
Height 0'0" Imperial 0.0 m Metric 0'0"/0.0 m Red-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m Blue-Striped 0'0"/0.0 m
Weight 0.0 lbs. Imperial 0.0 kg Metric 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Red-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg Blue-Striped 0.0 lbs./0.0 kg
Dex color Unknown	Catch rate 205 (26.8%)
Body style Blue-Striped	Footprint      Blue-Striped
Gender ratio Gender unknown Unknown Gender unknown
Breeding Water 1 and Water 3 groups 1 cycles (255 minimum steps)
EV yield HP 0 Atk 0 Def 0 Sp.Atk 0 Sp.Def 0 Speed 0 Base Exp.: 111 Battle Exp.: 1111*
External links On Smogon Pokédex: Generation III Generation IV Generation V Generation VI Generation VII Generation VIII Generation IX Artwork on Bulbagarden Archives

Corphish (Japanese: ヘイガニ Heigani) is a Water-type Pokémon.

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Physiology

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Behavior

Habitat

Diet

Main article: Pokémon food

In the anime

Corphish first appeared in AG023. Ash Ketchum battled and captured this Ruffian Pokémon at the end of the episode. Ash's Corphish serves as the main comedy relief member of Ash's team and the only Pokémon that Ash captured in Hoenn that hasn't evolved, save for his Torkoal (which doesn't have an evolved form).

Pokédex entries

Pokémon Ruby

Corphish were originally foreign Pokémon that were imported as pets. They eventually turned up in the wild. This Pokémon is very hardy and has greatly increased its population.

Pokémon Sapphire

Corphish catches prey with its sharp claws. It has no likes or dislikes when it comes to food - it will eat anything. This Pokémon has no trouble living in filthy water.

Pokémon Emerald

Once it grips prey with its large pincers, it will never let go, no matter what. It is a hardy Pokémon that can thrive in any environment.

Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen

It came from overseas. It is a very hardy creature that will quickly proliferate, even in polluted streams.

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Evolution

Trivia

Origin

Based on the Pokemon Ruby Pokedex Entry, Corphish is probably Red Swamp Crayfish(Procambarus clarkii). Native to North America, this species was introduced in Japan as food for bullfrogs. Today, these crayfish are popular pets in Japan.^[1]

Name origin

Corphish's name is possibly a pun on crayfish.

Alternatively, it could be a homonymic play on the arcane Newfoundland fishing term corfish; the meaning of "corfish" is not clear. According to "West to Pemaquid,"^[2], corfish were a "kind of dried fish," specifically, "a green variety." It goes on to say that the other kind of dried fish was called "dunfish," which we can ascertain from the 1913 Webster means "codfish cured in a particular manner, so as to be of a superior quality." We can assume from this that "corfish" is thus probably a type of preserved, dried codfish, and, according to West to Pemaquid, lower quality than dunfish (corfish ... was suitable for sale ... as slave food ...). "Colony of Avalon,"^[3] further asserts corfish to mean "wet-cured fish" (to cure being to preserve using salts or smoke). Corfish is mostly obsolete, but is still sometimes used, and can especially be found in old English; for example, see page 279 of Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings or New England Before the Pilgrim Fathers Landed^[4]: "Of dry fish we made about 40000. of Cor fish about 7000," and "With these Furres, the Traine, and Corfish I returned for England in the Bark ..." (1614). The Dictionary of Newfoundland English defines "corfish," but it is not widely available.

Old English also used the forms "cor fish" and "cor-fish." Other references to corfish in archaic documents, particularily those authored by Captain John Smith, which provides clues to its meaning are as follows:

• "where they take nothing but small Cod, where of the greatest they make Cor-fish, and the rest is hard dried, which we call Poore-John, would amaze a man with wonder.^[5]

  "Newfoundland doth yearly freight near eight hundred sail of ships with a silly, lean, skinny poor-john, and cor fish ..."^[6]

Its Japanese name is based on 平家蟹 heikegani, Heike crab.

In other languages

• German: Krebscorps
• French: Ecrapince
• Korean: ???

Related articles

• Ash's Corphish

External links

• Article on Wikipedia

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