#scaly dragonfish

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #532

Scaly dragonfish!

Many dragonfish don’t have scales, but — as their name suggests — the scaly dragonfish does! Their scales are small and hexagonal.

[abyssa111]

The Fauna of the Deep Sea, 1893

[nemfrog]

Scaly dragonfish, Stomias boa, found at a depth of 1900 meters. The fauna of the deep sea. 1896.

[bottleshark]

MY NEW TATTOO. I just got it last night, and I’m so thrilled. It’s gorgeous. This is my first ever tattoo and I just decided to go with the big one I really wanted. It’s a scaly dragonfish. 

The tattoo was done by Austin Huffman, who’s an amazing artist and really lovely to work with.

[levitybetty]

Old self-portrait, also, my Tumblr pic.

I also went through a phase of painting deep sea creatures. 

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When I was little the deep-sea sections of my aquatic-life books used to freak me out, now they're just so interesting:

1. Giant Isopod, what a cutie

2. The barreleye fish, its eyes are contained inside it's see-through head

3. Blob fish, a beauty eh? lives so unfathomably deep that it has evolved to have a density similar to that of water do the pressure won't crush it, but becuase of this has under-developed muscules and simply eats whatever happens to drift past rather than hunt 

4. Scaly Dragonfish

5. Football fish (Seriously)

6. Ping-Pong tree sponge (Honestly not making this up)

[miscellaneous-manx]

Whoa, just whoa