[ID: a small watercolor painting of three red fish on a blue watery background. end.]
[ID: a photo of a small painting of a green fish facing to the left with a colorful striped and spotted border. End.]
[ID: an illustration of a purple patterned heron with its mouth open toward falling water from the top, trying to catch two fish. end.]
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[ID: an illustration of rainbow fishes swimming to the right. end.]
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[ID: an illustration of five mostly green and brown fish drawn in profile. the background is a bright patterned teal, green, and yellow. end.]
Do you know all these fish??? 🐟👀
Focusing on freshwater creatures rn so wanted to cover a few classic lake/river fish. These guys will all be stickers (with different backgrounds) next month. Tag your guesses - answers under the cut!
[ID: an illustration of a brown striped fish from above. It is facing to the left and is surrounded by urchins and sea stars on a rocky green and purple background. End.]
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TIDE POOL SCULPIN
Oligocottus maculosus
CLASS ACTINOPTERYGII
FAMILY COTTIDAE
A small fish that can survive out of water for a time, breathing air as it wriggles to elude predators or move between pools. It lays its eggs in rock crevices or empty barnacle shells.
[ID: an illustration of blue semi-transparent fish swimming to the left on a galaxy background crowded with large colorful planets. end]
Big fishes…..
Celestial spirit fish is one of my favorite weirdly specific visual tropes. Postcard for this past creature club mail! Will be on my shop too, soon, just gotta get photos. <o>< <o>< <o><
[Id: an illustration of a shark facing to the right with its mouth open, on a blue background with a shark tooth pattern. End]
Megalodon! Big powerful extinct shark who crushed bones and turtle shells with its thick teeth. The largest confirmed specimen is almost 60ft long!
[ID: a digital illustration of a green fish with dorsal black stripes and a red belly. It’s teeth are sharp and it is surrounded by simple green leaves on a light green background. End.]
Red-bellied piranha, a sharp little tetra from South America! They hang out in large schools for defense. They are omnivorous, but most seem to primarily consume fish, small vertebrates, bugs, and crustaceans.
[ID: a digital illustration of a fish facing to the right on a dark teal background, surrounded by leaves. It is black, blue, red, and grey striped and shiny, with a large blue eye. End.]
Neon tetra! They live in dark murky water in the wild and the iridescent scales shine and help them keep track of each other! They live in large schools in Blackwater streams in the Amazon river basin.
Timelapse below!
[ID: a digital llustration of a silver Arowana fish facing to the right, on an orange background with a silver crescent moon above it. End.]
Arowana! Big feesh. It opens its huge mouth like a drawbridge near the surface of the water to catch crustaceans, snails, bugs, and smaller fish.
The Mexican Tetra! It’s got a regular ol’ river fish form and a special fancy blind cave fish form, pictured here. Some populations have some intermingling between cave and river forms, and an intermediate, half-cave-half-river form can be observed.
[ID: an illustration of a pink, gold, and white cave fish, with no eyes. the background is water, dense with aquatic plants, and several other fish (both the tetra’s cave form and silvery, seeing, river form) are visible. end.]
it is my honor to introduce you to the waterfall climbing cave fish, a rare species of stygofauna (subterranean river-dwelling creature) from Thailand. A unique limb structure allows it to cling to rock and navigate flowing water.
[ID: an illustration of a pink and white eyeless fish with four wing-like fins positioned at the sides of its body. it is facing to the left on a textured blue background. drawn around it, there is yellow and orange text reading “waterfall-climbing cave fish”. following the drawing is a video of someone describing the cave fish accompanied by photos. end.]