when I say I'm a fish I really mean one of these guys
i scooted him a little bit to clean the spot under him and he was SO offended.
oh, how horrible of me!! to scoot him!!! 😭
ALTSubmitted for classification by @just7frogsinapeoplesuit
"Need an assessment of this particular frogfish"
what if you were underwater and you saw this thi
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oooooh new octopus lady video out!
god i love screenshotting these out of context
anyways go watch it
Fishuary day 21 - I felt like he didn’t need more than this, I think he speaks for himself
Taxonomy Tournament: Fish
Lophiiformes. This order is made up of Anglerfish, which lure in smaller fish prey using their luminescent fin ray. In some species, males are serveral orders of magnitude smaller than the females, which fuse with their mates, reciving nutrients through blood in exchange for sperm.
Tetraodontiformes. This order contains many fishses with unusual body structures, such as boxfishes, which are boxy as the implies, pufferfishes, which are round and able to inflate, and the ocean sunfish, the largest bony fish.
Ooh, what an intriguing matchup indeed! It’s good to remember that while most well-known anglerfishes are pelagic deep sea ones, like these,
anglerfishes are just as common in reefs and shallow habitats, and on the ocean floor! Shallow water anglerfishes include frogfishes, batfishes, goosefishes, monkfishes, handfishes… maybe more. They tend to walk on their fins and they don’t have such extreme sexual dimorphism as deep sea anglers! I’m not sure if they have bioluminescence outside of the deep sea? What I do know is that they still have lures, which appear like small prey, that they then dangle in front of their faces.
And, well, since I’m already at it, I might as well show the diversity of Tetraodontiformes too! Many of the fish in this order swim via the use of their dorsal and anal fins, which is taken to a big extreme with the ocean sunfishes! They’ve completely lost their tail fin, and their dorsal and anal fins have become long and muscular like flippers. Mola mola is the most well-known ocean sunfish, but other species exist too.
Like OP mentioned, there’s some strangely-shaped Tetraodontiformes, like the boxfishes, pufferfishes and porcupinefishes,
and some more normal-ish fishes, like triggerfishes, spikefishes and filefishes,
and there’s also some more peculiar, less-known tetraodontiformes too! Here’s a threetooth puffer, Triodon macropterus, the only member of its own family! It has a bellyflap it inflates when it feels threatened! Isn’t that cool!!???
Warty Frogfish (Antennarius maculatus), juvenile, family Antennariidae, Bali, Indonesia
photograph by Wolfgang Assl