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Spotting

Spotting Image 1

Description:

A friend caught this in gulf Shores AL.

Habitat:

Ocean

1 Species ID Suggestions

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Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago
Planehead Filefish
Stephanolepis hispidus WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Stephanolepis hispidus (Linnaeus, 1766)


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Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

I agree with CV. We call these leatherjackets here. Monacanthidae. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filefish

CorduneanuVlad
CorduneanuVlad 11 years ago

Looks like a kind of file fish.

BrianaReichart
BrianaReichart 11 years ago

It was found in salt water a friend found it on vacation and I really liked how the fish looked..ill ask here were she was

Jellis
Jellis 11 years ago

Could you change your location to match close to where you found it?

Jellis
Jellis 11 years ago

Was this found in fresh or salt water? Do you have a picture of the whole fish?

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BrianaReichart
Spotted by
BrianaReichart

Gulf Shores, Alabama, USA

Spotted on Dec 31, 2012
Submitted on Jan 3, 2013

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