#chaunacops

[goryfluff]

Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) | 2024

[fishsyndrome]

Sea Toad (Chaunacops)

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A Chaunacops (a genus of bony fish in the sea toad family Chaunacidae) is seen at a depth of 1388.65 meters on Seamount SF2 inside the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park.

Image courtesy of Schmidt Ocean Institute

[herpsandbirds]

Sea Toad aka Coffinfish (Chaunacops coloratus), family Chaunacidae, order Lophiiformes, found in the deep sea, off the coast of California, USA

Smaller immature fish are bluish, and the older fish are red.

photograph by MBARI | NOAA

video: Fishing in the deep: observations of a deep-sea anglerfish (youtube.com)

[fieldguidetothenarrativeforest]

Chaunacops sp. fish and pingpong tree sponge for day two of @mbari-blog @montereybayaquarium Deep Sea December — “Red”

(feat. EVNautilus’ scale lasers)

[fish-i-imagined]

Silly fish spotlight! Chaunacops fish

Almost looks it's made of felt--Chaunacops is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to a family referred to as "the sea toads." Their home is the Indo-West Pacific, southeastern Pacific and western Atlantic oceans. Little is known about them, they live in the deep sea.

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

I'm enjoying the amazing high-quality images of these sea creatures that an expedition sighted in the underwater mountains off the coast of Chile. Over 100 suspected new species were found in February 2024.

[theclod3215]

If there are no fans of chaunacops coloratus in the world, I’m dead