#pink handfish

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Divers Exploring Sunken Ship Find Someone Extremely Rare Hiding Among The Wreckage — The Dodo

There are less than 100 in the world 😳

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I saw this article and the photo they used just spoke to me.

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pink handfish

wahh I missed you wiki-anon also sorry for the late reply I was in London this weekend

A handfish is an anglerfish of the family Brachionichthyidae, a group which comprises five genera and 14 extant species.[2] These benthic marine fish are unusual in the way they propel themselves by walking on the sea floor rather than swimming.

Handfishes are found today in the coastal waters of southern Australia and Tasmania. This is the most species-rich of the few marine fish families endemic to the Australian region.

Handfish grow up to 15 cm (5.9 in) long, and have skin covered with denticles (tooth-like scales), giving them the alternate name warty anglers. They are slow-moving fish that prefer to 'walk' rather than swim, using their modified pectoral fins to move about on the sea floor. These highly modified fins have the appearance of hands, hence their scientific name, from Latin bracchium meaning "arm" and Greek ichthys meaning "fish". (x)

Pink one here (x)

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Pink handfish, using hands to crawl along the ocean's surface rather than swim.. The pink handfish is one of nine named species described in a scientific review of the handfish family. Only four specimens of the elusive four-inch (ten-centimeter) pink handfish have ever been found, and all of those were collected from areas around the city of Hobart on the Australian island of Tasmania. The species determinations were made based on a number of factors, including number of vertebrae and fin rays, coloration, the presence of scales and spines, and proportional body measurements. All of the world's 14 known species of handfish are found only in shallow, coastal waters off southeastern Australia.

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Pink Handfish

Using its fins to walk, rather than swim, along the ocean floor in an undated picture, the pink handfish is one of nine newly named species described in a scientific review of the handfish family released in May.

Only four specimens of the elusive four-inch (ten-centimeter) pink handfish have ever been found, and all of those were collected from areas around the city of Hobart, on the Australian island of Tasmania.

See more pictures: "Nine Fish With 'Hands' Found to Be New Species."

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Pink Handfish