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June 14, 2009
Anyone know what type of fish this is? It’s being featured in a Fark photoshop thread. Original is here.
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Wow. now that’s one weird fish.
Sorry, not a marine biologist.
It looks like a mutant grouper to me.
Looks like Howard*.
*(One of the fish from Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life” that was “being eaten”).
Zarquon : They meant Paul Atrades.
The father is of no importance.
It’s an Asian sheepshead (Semicossyphus reticulatus), a type of NW Pacific wrasse (family Labridae).
Tony Gill, thanks! here I thought it was some kind of bizarre mutant.
Thanks Tony for the identification – I probably should just have emailed you the photo!
Cool fish. Looks incredibly prehistoric!
Are the Asian ones all born female and change sex if/when needed like the ones in California? Favorite part of marine biology camp in grade school! Well, close tie with kissing the sea cucumbers.