Deep Sea ID
Submitted by B___s___A on Sat, 2015-08-08 09:29
HI,
On a recent trip to coral bay the guys staying next to us pulled this thing from the depths 360m, just interested to see if anyone has any idea? looks like a sucker on the underside but took a large bait.. it was rock hard all over and a hard clear plastic cover over the eyes
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chris raff
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What a bizarre looking fish
What a bizarre looking fish .. aint seen one of those before
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Rick
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Yep
Thats one odd looking critter. No idea what it is !
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Auslobster
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Couldn't begin to guess!
Gotta be prehistoric....lack of dorsal fins and hard surface are considered to be primitive features. Hopefully Glenn from the museum can weigh in on this one!
The "fingers" in front of the pec fins are a characteristic of the gurnard family....
axey45
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Looks like Doubled beaked
Looks like Doubled beaked Gurnard.
Tarpon
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Satyrichthys laticeps
Satyrichthys laticeps
Ben Derecki
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Looks like a slender armoured
Looks like a slender armoured red gurnard in my book.
Crazy looking thing, that armour sounds incredible.
barneyboy
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That's the
vaccum cleaner off the Flintsones..
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
Hutch
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A couple fish IDs for this
A couple fish IDs for this fish but can't remember what they were sorry. Sure is ugly though
Bucko
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Armoured Searobin....
Armoured Searobin....
B___s___A
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yeh tarpon looks like its
yeh tarpon looks like its from that "satyrichthys laticeps" family
B___s___A
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Some info on
Some info on it,
http://www.fishbase.org/summary/67039
Tarpon
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Did anyone try to eat it?
Did anyone try to eat it?
Adam Gallash
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MMM
Can't say I've seen one of those before, very interesting!
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B___s___A
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No tarpon, they were going
No tarpon, they were going to hand it over to fisheries.
Jaggo
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Bet it fought pretty hard
Bet it fought pretty hard haha
jigsaw
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Tarpon's got it
Tarpon's got it. I was thinking gurnard family, but no.
meglodon
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It looks bloody horible
Perhaps it's an extra from 200000 leagues beneath the sea.
Timwoody86
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Wtf
Wtf is that. WHere they fishing on earth
shut up and fish
meglodon
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OOOPS
One to many zeros should be 20000 leagues, you didn't see the picture then Tim, it stared James Mason as captain nemo if I remember correctly. If I'm wrong about that then I'm sure some other oldie will put me right.
The nuke sub he drove looked exactly like the fish up for ID