Bizarre Mystery Fish Identified

Written by:
Hans Kruit, 9 November 2013

Earlier this week, an angler in Borneo caught an unusual-looking fish, which caused quite a stir online. (read: Latest World News 7/11/13)

The mystery fish has a large head and is covered with sharp spines on the top and bottom of its body.
Its body gets progressively smaller towards the tail.
The fish measuring over one foot in length has two tusk-like spikes near its mouth.
Sapar Mansor, 43, from Taman Ceria, Permyjaya, caught the strange creature in the sea near Tudan.


Gene Helfman, a fish expert at the University of Georgia wrote:

In all likelihood it’s a perestidiid armored gurnard, apparently in the genus Satyrichthys.
I can’t take it to species ‘cause there are a bunch of them.
They are generally known as armored gurnards and are closely allied to our triglid searobins.


source: National Geographic

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