Tetractenos glaber

A great blue heron flying by after snagging a toadfish in St. Andrews Bay, Panama City Beach, FL. If only I'd turned a litttttle more to my left! Still a really cool shot.

Nelson Bay September 2013.

This guy looks almost like a leprechaun in the beam of my flashlight.

Porichthys notatus (Batrachoididae) Toadfishes

Distribution: Eastern Pacific Ocean along the West Coast of North America.

Habitat: Ranges from intertidal areas where they may remain out of water under rocks or seaweed to deeper water over sand and mud bottoms. Return to shallow intertidal waters to reproduce. Seasonally common in San Francisco, Suisun, and San Pablo Bays. Water planet Senses Cluster

Water planet Senses cluster WP40

5-5-13, 7-11-14 *Not currently on exhibit

Family Batrachoididae Opsanus tau en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toadfish

Photo by Donna Bickle

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Photo by Donna Bickle

The famous Snark of the Turneffe

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Photo by Heidi Hannoush

Off Little Corn Island, Nicaragua

Only a mother could love...

Common toadfish are seemingly everywhere in Florida waters. They are also known as oyster fish and rock fish.

This "Splendid Toad Fish" is a species found only in Cozumel - endemic to the reefs there.

Opsanus tau - oyster toadfish (juvenile)

Dropped out of an oyster basket. No longer than a pinkie finger. So cute at this age!

Olympus digital camera

silly toadfish we found languishing upside down on an exposed coral head. It didn't seem to appreciate our efforts to return its exceedingly soft and slimey body to the water.

Taken by Leah Harper

Photo by Anne Gilbert, MDNR Forest Service

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Oyster Toadfish, Opsanus tau, aka Oyster Cracker, North Carolina, USA, North Atlantic Ocean.

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Photo by Sue Wait

Nature photographer (and intrepid tour guide) Dotty Motta finds an incredibly beautiful conch shell, inside of which was hiding a very photogenic toadfish.

June 2008 "Seashore Surprises" Shutter Stroll at Emerson Point Preserve in Manatee County Florida.

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splendid toadfish