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.
2 comments:
Hey Martin!
Struggling to get through to you concerning the Gasmet FTIR, sorry to use the fish as a contact point!
Regards,
Henry Meller
Buttonwood Marketing
Oh. Seamoth? No idea such a creature existed. It looks as if it has been kept between the pages of a book for far too long...
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