Man Catches Unique Fish With Horns

Written by:
Hans Kruit, 5 December 2013

Rosli Mohd Saad is excited of his recent catch - a strange-looking fish with horns which he caught while fishing in the coastal waters off Sungai Pinang here recently.

He said it looked like a cross between a toad, a puffer fish and a sea horse.
About the size of ping-pong ball, it is greenish-yellow in colour and has a grandular and scaly body like a toad, and a snout-like mouth resembling a sea horse.

The most oustanding feature of the creature was the spikes or horns, like in a puffer fish, on its head and tail. They are sharp and about one-centimeter long. Rosli said it was a fish since it has gills on both sides of the face.

This is the first time I have ever caught a strange creature from the sea.
I want to bring it to the Fisheries Department to identify the creature. Until then, I want to keep and feed it in a special aquarium, he said.

source: Malaysian Diggest

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