Usage examples (6)

• He was getting to be a fairly big fish, though no more than a couple of inches – maybe three – but nowhere near the potential full-size of a shubunkin.
• When we first bought Fergus, he (or she?) was orange, white, and black – calico, a lot like a shubunkin, though he was in a tank labeled “comet gold fish.”
• The common goldfish, the comet (this has a pointy tail) and the shubunkin (which is blue and speckled) are the most widely seen of the straight-tailed varities.
• The triumph, if I may brag, is the shubunkin.