#filefish

[i-give-you-a-fish]

could i get your wackiest fish please?

World’s most fucked up baby

You get an Orange Filefish (juvinile)

Aluterus schoepfii

[vintagewildlife]

Filefish By: Villaret From: Life Nature Library: The Fishes 1963

[niqvassieart]

Fish of Hayama i have met while snorkelling. Thread-sail filefish and rainbow wrasse species.

[herpsandbirds]

Blacksaddle Filefish (Paraluteres prionurus), T/Mid - adults, B - juvenile, family Monacantidae, order Tetraodontiformes, found in much of the Indo-Pacific

T/M - Adults reach a max length of 11 cm.

B - This juvenile is about 1.5 cm.

photos: Sonja Ooms, Jens Petersen & Fadil Tally

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #816

Harlequin filefish!

By eating specific coral, ones of the Acropora genus, it gains the scent of the coral! This, along with its colour-changing abilities, disguises it very well from predators.

[antiqueanimals]

Scrawled filefish (Aluterus scriptus), Fantail filefish (Pervagor spilosoma), Planehead filefish (Stephanolepis hispidus), Orange filefish (Aluterus schoepfii)

Fishes of the World. Written by Hans Hvass. Illustrated by Wilhelm Eigener. Originally published in 1964.

Internet Archive

[cowfishchronicles]

Flat Fuck Friday 1

Scrawled filefish (Aluterus scriptus)

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[girlwithablacktiptattoo]

First time at the National Aquarium yesterday!