#cornetfish

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fish baguette

You get an Atlantic Bluespotted Cornetfish

Fistularia tabacaria

[infectiouspiss]

why are you so long. ?? stop

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Smooth Flutemouth, Exmouth WA

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why are they like this i love them

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Voting ended onSep 4, 2024

Image by Mkleine, CC BY-SA 3.0

[osteichthyes]

Inspired by that post about birds with ridiculous common names: what are the weirdest fish names you’ve come across?

So there's the Dolly Varden, a trout that was named by a sixteen-year-old girl after the fashion of her dress at the time, which was in turn named after a Dickens character:

There's the spiny lumpsucker, who is correctly named:

These photos are my own, from a research trawler I was on off of Alaska!

There's the sarcastic fringehead, whose mouth is wider than it is long and who compares said mouths to establish dominance:

There are trumpetfish and their appropriately larger cousins the cornetfish, both of which are also known as flutemouths, which... sure. Also, cornetfish get up to TWO METERS LONG:

And finally, as promised, the black teatfish. Which is not a fish. It's a sea cucumber that someone apparently thought looked like it had teats, and needed a common name that contrasted as strongly as possible with its Latin name, Holothuria nobilis, or "noble sea cucumber."

If anyone reading this knows of stupid-named fish please tell me.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #258

Cornetfish!

Their snouts can create a powerful suction, which they use to suck in prey! They ambush their prey the same way a seahorse does, floating very slowly — these two groups of fish are in fact related!

[dailymarinefish]

day 60, 23/03/24 - fish of the day is the red cornetfish (Fistularia petimba)