welcome back to another episode of Sexy Seining

fish bro | marine invert sibling

[bassprideshops]

Picture this: I'm tidepooling in socks and birkenstocks and lamenting to my mother via cell phone that I will one day have to choose between studying fish or studying invertebrates when before my very eyes the supreme lord of the tidepools appears as if to say fear not my child you know the rocks where land meets sea are your home as they are home to so many other small shelled creatures with soft insides

[herpsandbirds]

Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri), family Neoceratodontidae, order Ceratodontiformes, class Dipnoi, Australia

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Bill Hawthorne

[blue-green-memes]

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FishFriday 🐠:

Scorpion Fish (371)

Designed by Andresen (1894-1922) for Royal Copenhagen, c.1920

Glazed porcelain

3½ × 7 w × 8¼ d in (9 × 21 × 18 cm)

[sarahmackattack]

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

[plaguedocboi]

ARE YOU GUYS AWARE OF CROWN CONCHS???? THIS IS THEIR WHOLE ENTIRE FACE

I can’t fucking deal with this why do they look like that. conchs are the most ridiculous animals on this earth and I love them so much

[oncorhynchus-nerka]

Pacific Cod Kofi comm! thank you!

[kofi]

[montereybayaquarium]

A star-tling diagnosis

You may have seen that the sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) has been in the news a lot lately. Like southern sea otters, giant sunflower sea stars are one of the predators in kelp forests that prey on herbivores and help maintain the balance of thriving kelp forests. Once abundant and fabulous in California waters, these giant multiarmed beauties have been missing in action for more than a decade after a mysterious illness wiped them out…

This disease, called sea star wasting disease, caused sunflower star populations to decline to the brink of extinction, and it wasn’t clear what was causing it. But new discoveries are emerging and one cause has been identified—a bacterium named Vibrio pectenicida! This breakthrough knowledge is helping scientists understand how this disease came about and spread… and hopefully, how to stop it. We celebrate our colleagues at all the institutions doing the research that made this new discovery possible.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium is part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' Saving Animals From Extinction (SAFE) program, where we are collaborating with scientific institutions and aquariums nationwide to support sunflower star recovery. Together, we can help these stars rise again!

[bungerc0re]

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[plaguedocboi]

I think we’re really not appreciating limpets enough. They’re just a snail with extra shell and they’re equally adorable

[chilirasbora]

Artic grayling | Thymallus arcticus

X, X

[mxmollusca]

fear me

[todaysfish]

Okay team today’s fish is the Arctic Char!

Look at those COLORS!

Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) are in the family Salmonidae, so they’re related to the classic salmon and trout that you’re probably familiar with.

Look how freaking stunning they are! The orange glow! That teal!

Arctic char have a ton of shape and size morphs, so there is a lot of discussion about subspecies, and also have a variety of life histories with the species: some are anadromous (to the ocean! Come back! Die!), some are landlocked (do not go to the ocean! Die!), and some are semi-anadromous (go into the ocean but not as far! Stay mostly brackish! Come back! Die!)

Arctic char are also the MOST NORTHERN FRESHWATER FISH!!!!! All alone up there in several very cold lakes.

[sandmandaddy69]

[virgils-muse]

Sorry for yearning for the ocean on main. It will happen again.

[bees-with-swords]

"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

[hearnoweevil]

Last year I finally had an excuse to illustrate this simple little Tumblr story I've had bookmarked forever for class.

I hope you like it :]

[edward-blake-unknown-knight]

[nerdyogre]

FISH HAMMER

[a-wa-c]

For beating the carp outta someone