#snipefish

[foxsnails]

Splashed out this 4 layer screen print this week featuring some funky local fish living in the Plymouth Sound! We've got a Bull huss shark, a Cuckoo wrasse, a Gunard, a Mackerel, a Boarfish, and a Snipefish! Now available on my shop here 🛒🐟, 10 available! I've got a lil process video too

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #869

Longspine snipefish!

Adults tend to hover above the seafloor with their body pointed downwards, quickly sucking any small prey in the sand into their long snout! A very spread out species, longspine snipefish can be found in the tropical and subtropical parts of every ocean.

[i-give-you-a-fish]

May I have a silly fish? 🤲🥺

Silly guy for you

You get a Longspine Snipefish

Macroramphosus scolopax

[eurodiverslanzarote]

Last summer we had a lucky encounter.

We went to "Barranco del Quiquere" and found a massive fish ball of Snipe-Fish probably the "Macroramphosus scolopax". 🐟🐟🐟

Music: https://www.purple-planet.com/

[hydrothermalvententhusiast]

Longspine snipe fish use their snoots to poke and prod sharks for entertainment. They find being annoying quite fun. They dont get eaten much cause their're itty bitty and speedy

[trenchgardens-ooc-ooc-ooc-ooc]

what the fuck do you mean this isnt a pikmin enemy

[oneanimalpictureaday]

Longspine snipefish

Facts from Britannica: Snipefishes are often referred to as “bellows fish” because of their resemblance to a hand-driven bellows. Snipefishes possess an erect dorsal fin that contains several spines. The longest of these spines and the fish’s tail appear to form the “handles” of the bellows, whereas the fish’s tubular snout forms the “nozzle.”

[taggthewanderer]

The snipefish, an ocean-dwelling relative of the seahorse, has a very long, skinny snout ending in a tiny mouth. A recent study shows that snipefish feed with an elastic-boosted head flick at almost unprecedented speed.