The goldeye, one of two species of "mooneyes", family Hiodontidae, endemic but widespread in the freshwaters of central, northern North America. Presumably, there are some near me here in Saskatchewan.
Image from the Smithsonian
Friday, August 26, 2011
Friday Fish: Hiodon alosoides
The goldeye, one of two species of "mooneyes", family Hiodontidae, endemic but widespread in the freshwaters of central, northern North America. Presumably, there are some near me here in Saskatchewan.
Image from the Smithsonian
Friday, August 12, 2011
Friday Fish: Pegasus volitans
A seamoth, family Pegasidae, order Pegasiformes. This is a very small and very strange family; my Fishes of the World, 2nd Edition (Nelson, 1984) describes a single genus, with five species, and only this family in the order. It also describes the family as
"Body oddly shaped (broad and depressed), encased in bony plates; mouth small and toothless, beneath a long flattened rostrum (formed by fused nasals), with an unusual mechanism for protrusion of the jaws...Image from WildSingapore's flickr page, here.
Friday, August 05, 2011
Friday Fish: Emblemaria hypacanthus
The Gulf Signal-Blenny, a member of the family Chaenopsidae, of the order Perciformes.Image from the Encyclopedia of Life.
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