#snouted fish

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Your daily fish #56

Longnose hawkfish - Oxycirrhites typus

They use their pectoral fins to perch on coral and rocks! Kinda like birds!

They lack a swim bladder, this allows them to move quickly but they have to move their fins constantly to keep in place.

Those long and slim snouts help them find and snatch prey hiding in small crevices and their checkered pattern helps them blend in and it comes ia a variety of colors! Light pink, orange and bright red.

I love snouted fish! Look at it's little snout! And the patterns too!

Longnose hawkfish remind me of birds...

Are birds fish? Or are fish birds?