Whats this?
Submitted by Hairyone on Sat, 2015-09-12 12:45
Sorry about the photo quality but someone might recognise it.....
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carnarvonite
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Pipefish
Looks like its from the pipefish family though which one will probably be up to Glen from the museum
sea-kem
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Slender sea Moth.
Slender sea Moth.
Love the West!
grantarctic1
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lol
Must have been typing at the same time Andy .
sea-kem
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Get them in the river
Love the West!
grantarctic1
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Sea Moth
Its called a Sea Moth. Many different types, that one looks like a Slender Sea Moth .
Hairyone
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Just did a search for Slender
Just did a search for Slender Sea Moth and Pipefish and I think the Sea Moths have it.
Cheers
sunshine
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Have a dried one
the exoskeleton allows them to be preserved easily.....mine came from a box of prawns
Hairyone
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So did this one.....I pulled
So did this one.....I pulled it out of the bag and went to peel it and thought that felt a bit odd and looked down....WTF LOL
Vinesh87
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Yeh they sit in the mud at
Yeh they sit in the mud at the bottom of the river just like the prawns!
A pic i took many years back!
meglodon
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That's a very good pic
Great picture, that certainly clears up what sort of fish it is. A good post thanks for that.
Vinesh87
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Thanks, I had to lie in the
Thanks, I had to lie in the silt for ages to get it haha
bod
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slender sea moth
Slender Seamoth - Pegasus volitans
Also known as Longtail Seamoth, Slender Seamoth are light brown or olive to dark brown with a paler belly. They have a flattened head and tapered body covered by a bony skeleton of rigid plates. The tail is enclosed in bony rings. The white tipped snout is long and made up of modified nose bones and there is a small mouth under the snout. They have large pectoral fins which are spread out like wings. Slender Seamoths are adapted to walk over the bottom using their pelvic fins.
Juvenile Slender Seamoths are sometimes black.
They grow to 18cms in length.
Slender Seamoths have commercial value for use in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
In Australia Slender Seamoths are found from Fremantle Western Australia around the tropical north, then south to Sydney New South Wales, inhabiting sand or silt bottoms of bays and estuaries.