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Fishuary Day 26: Type Of Guy With A House
His home now
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Young pricklebacks. The splotchy one is a monkeyface prickleback and the other is a black prickleback.
This fish is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-YES! It’s a monkeyface prickleback!
It’s almost Valentine’s Day, but don’t expect the monkeyface prickleback to catch eelings. After decades of putting up with being called an eel, the monkeyface prickleback is moving on. With its proud pectoral fins and lack of an eel-y leptocephalus larva, this elongated crevice dweller is ridding itself of the world’s eel intentions and focusing on being the best long fish it can be! 😤
MONKEYFACE PRICKLEBACK (Cebidichthys violaceus)
zimway2k, 2010. “what a face #2 (monkeyface eel)” Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, Santa Cruz, California
Meet the monkeyface prickleback. The fish with a face even its mother couldn’t love. I’m sure I don’t need to explain the ‘monkeyface’ bit (hint: it’s the ‘nose’) but ‘prickleback’ refers to the many spines supporting the fish’s large dorsal fin. There are actually around 70 species of prickleback (Stichaeidae), including absolute gems like the high cockscomb (Anoplarchus purpurescens) and pighead prickleback (Acantholumpenus mackayi).
