Saturday 24 July 2010
leopard toadfish (opsanus pardus) has a large flat head & a big mouth with fleshy projections around it. spend most of the time under a rock or crevice & feed on mollusks & crustaceans
butterfly fish (chaetodon capistratus).. known as the four-eye fish & do mating for life, therefore you will often see two of them romantically together
jackkhnife fish (equetus lanceolatus)
lingcod (ophiodon elongates)
queen angelfish
bat rays (myliobatis californica)are truly graceful creatures & normally are 4 to 5 feet across but have been reported with 'wingspans' of 8 feet! they live up to 24 years & are armed with a defensive barb on the end of their tail. feamle bat rays are faster & grow longer than males
scrawled cowfish (lactophrys quadricornis), a member of boxfish family
smooth trunk fish (lactophrys triqueter)
woof-eels (anarrhichthys ocellatus) have powerful jaws for crushing bivalves
codfish.. so pinksih! cute eyes too..
credits: livescience & various data
