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Our scientific aide brought in a couple of nifty fish Friday, taken in a purse seine. One of them was a sarcastic fringehead. I won't post the pic taken of it as it was pretty beaten up, but I did post about them once before about four years ago; I especially like Dr. Love's quote about them.
Here's little portrait I took of one at the Cabrillo Aquarium in San Pedro. He wasn't being particularly cantankerous, and behaved for having his picture taken. By the way, the orange thing in the background is a warty sea cucumber.
Worth redirecting your attention to is what they do with those enormous jaws (click to view video clips).
The other fish was a northern spearnose poacher. Poachers are a family of small fish whose scales are fused together into bony plates. They live on the bottom, sometimes in very deep water, and feed on small crustaceans and worms, pulling themselves around with their pectoral fins. I think you can tell where the name "spearnose" comes from, although "spear" is a bit of an exaggeration.
Here's little portrait I took of one at the Cabrillo Aquarium in San Pedro. He wasn't being particularly cantankerous, and behaved for having his picture taken. By the way, the orange thing in the background is a warty sea cucumber.
Worth redirecting your attention to is what they do with those enormous jaws (click to view video clips).
The other fish was a northern spearnose poacher. Poachers are a family of small fish whose scales are fused together into bony plates. They live on the bottom, sometimes in very deep water, and feed on small crustaceans and worms, pulling themselves around with their pectoral fins. I think you can tell where the name "spearnose" comes from, although "spear" is a bit of an exaggeration.