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Myliobatis aquila - Raie aigle ou Aigle de mer ou Aigle commun ou Lancette ou Mourine ou Mourine aigle ou Mourine noctule - Eagle ray ou Spotted eagle ray ou Common eagle ray ou Sea eagle ou Mill skate ou Toadfish ou Whipray
Australian Numbfish are a type of electrc ray. They can deliver an electric shock to stun prey or to deter predators. The Numbfish is an active predator with a distensible mouth which allows it to feed on large bony fishes.
Public Pier, Blaine, WA.
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The venemous toadfish Thalassophryne amazonica occurs in the waters of the Amazon River. From the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP 178103 K). © D. Biston Vaz.
The best I could do. It was pretty gloomy down there and hard to focus on the toadfish under the ledge. As soon as the focus light when on, the toadfish retreated further back under the ledge. I guess with those big eyes they are nocturnal and my light was unwelcome.
Here we are doing our surface interval, waiting to do our second dive of the morning. The weather could not have been nicer. And look at that calm water!!
STS-95 crew members gather around the Vestibular Function Experiment Unit (VFEU) which includes marine fish called toadfish. In foreground, from left, are Mission Specialist Pedro Duque of the European Space Agency (ESA), a technician from the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), Payload Specialist Chiaki Mukai of NASDA, Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, and Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr., who also is a senator from Ohio. At center, facing the camera, are Mission Specialist Scott E. Parazynski and Commander Curtis L. Brown Jr., in back. STS-95 will feature a variety of research payloads, including the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, and experiments on space flight and the aging process. STS-95 is targeted for an Oct. 29 launch aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. Image from NASA, originally appeared on this site: science.ksc.nasa.gov/gallery/photos/ Reposted by San Diego Air and Space Museum
Spring Break Fossil Hike #3. We had two separate programs including a group from Richmond led by Renesha Childs and AmeriCorps intern Carl Smith.
She kept it away from marauding male mergansers for a while, but ultimately lost her prize catch to a persistent male.
Discarded Ramponn fish at Caranzalem shores
This fish inflates it's belly like a balloon
pufferfish, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish, toadfish bannkocho bannkoche
A Gulf Toadfish sits at the front of its burrow, behind a school of mysid shrimp. Bocas Del Toro, Panama.
More about this fish on the wildfacts sheets on wildsingapore.
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Smooth Toadfish - Tetractenos glaber (Fréminville, 1813) [more of this species]
This is the most common species of pufferfish in South-eastern Australia. It can be identified by its red eyes, smooth skin and the spotting pattern on its back. This consists of regular sized spots all over with larger spots forming vertical strips on its back. Its tail is clear to yellowish with an orange or at least a yellower lower third.
Date: March 4, 2012
Location: Lorne [more at this location]
Country: Australia
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