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Chaenopsis limbaughi
Photo take at -45 ft in a sand bed next to a Coral reef this is a very small fish about 7 cm long has a grate sailfin very rare to see usually Pike fish don´t go outside the hole where inhabitant. Light brown with pale dots and a narrow mid-lateral brown stripe, sometimes broken into blotches; faint bars on body; small black spot at front of dorsal fin; mature males with more yellow on head, gill membranes black; branchiostegal rays blue.
Found in sand areas usually in small holes in the sand or some sand tubes from Florida all the Caribbean sea to Venezuela.
Spotted on Mar 18, 2012
Submitted on Mar 18, 2012
4 Comments
Thanks Karen!
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082...
Thanks Karen do you have the link please!
Very interesting!
You should consider adding this to the animal architecture mission too - I'm not sure if they have any fish architecture in the mission!