weird fish - ID please
Submitted by Whiting on Sat, 2012-10-20 20:57
a mate posted me this photo from exmouth in the last couple of days. Any idea what these are? and are they good eating?
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carnarvonite
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Stargazer
Looks like a blotched stargazer
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id
I think they are a species of Stargazer...
but why would your mate kill it if he didn't know what it is???
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stargazer drinking beer
stargazerus horibilus badbeerus lol yep looks like a dark stargazer
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Toilet paper, looks like it
Toilet paper, looks like it could have come out of the sewage
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If ur that desperate I'll
If ur that desperate I'll post u a kilo of snapper fillets. Lol
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chris raff
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apparently taste
apparently taste alright...just put a bag over it's head first
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smells like fish...tastes
smells like fish...tastes like chicken!!
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WTF, was looking at the holes
WTF, was looking at the holes in the fishes heads and noticed a wet patch........
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Ha ha ha ha Trackies are a
Ha ha ha ha Trackies are a dead give away. Must have lent against the sink ;)
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quality
Quality catches them, they are 5 star eating, take as many as you like!
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adam i think you are fibbing
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Tad pole
They are bloody big tad poles ;)
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stargazer
The stargazers are a family Uranoscopidae of perciform fish that have eyes on top of their heads (hence the name). The family includes about 51 species (one extinct) in 8 genera, all marine and found worldwide in shallow waters.
In addition to the top-mounted eyes, stargazers also have a large upward-facing mouth in a large head. Their usual habit is to bury themselves in sand, and leap upwards to ambush prey (benthic fish and invertebrates) that pass overhead. Some species have a worm-shaped lure growing out of the floor of the mouth, which they can wiggle to attract prey's attention. Both the dorsal and anal fins are relatively long; some lack dorsal spines. Lengths range from 18 cm up to 90 cm, for the giant stargazer Kathetostoma giganteum.
Stargazers are venomous; they have two large poison spines situated behind the opercle and above the pectoral fins. Some species can also cause electric shocks. They have an electric organ consisting of modified eye muscles. They are one of the few[1] marine bony fishes that are electrogenic. They are also unique among electric fish in not possessing specialized electroreceptors
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So is a stargazer the same as
So is a stargazer the same as a blotched jawfish then?
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Nope and thems sure are
Nope and thems sure are blotched Jawfishes Dodgy, ugly sukkas, hope they tasted alright.
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Opistognathus latitabundus
I think the scientific name is Opistognathus latitabundas and blotched Jawfish seems to be the common name. They are not stargazers and so are harmless, fortunately. We caught two at Exmouth also but released them.
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