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Dragón de Mar Común (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus)Autor
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broken tail on this one. They do get brittle as they dry out.
24cm
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Pretty dried out but yellow fins are recognisable.
There was another even more dried out that I didn't bother to photograph.
15.5 cm
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relatively fresh and clearly ringed. 16.5 cm
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Puffer de Barras Naranjas (Polyspina piosae)Autor
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third of the morning, and the plumpest (but I realise that was probably only "puff"! 60 mm
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Puffer de Barras Naranjas (Polyspina piosae)Autor
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second of the morning and largest. Not often do I find ones as long as 70mm. and elegantly displayed in the seaweed!
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Puffer de Barras Naranjas (Polyspina piosae)Autor
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first of the morning, and smallest, 55 mm.
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Meuschenia galiiAutor
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It looked complete on one side, albeit faded, but the other showed the insides had been eaten out.
Miley's beach had a few more washups for me (and lots of rubbish to pick up, including two and a half toothbrushes, a bicycle pedal, long-handled paint brush among heaps of plastic and bits of rope!)
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Dragón de Mar Común (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus)Autor
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24 cm, probably washed up within 2 moths ago, when I was last at this beach.
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no pectoral fins on this one to show they are yellow, but no ring so not a ringed puffer. The eyes always look hjgher on this species. 11.5 cm
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12.3 cm, W on 4-mie beach
The yellow fin and yellow on the belly differentiate this from the ringed puffer which I find far more often.
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Puffer de Barras Naranjas (Polyspina piosae)Autor
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48 mm East Mylies Beach
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Pez Erizo del Sur (Diodon nicthemerus)Autor
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second one a bit further west. 18 cm
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Pez Erizo del Sur (Diodon nicthemerus)Autor
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24 cm. I waited for some time for this fish to be washed up far enough for me to grab it without getting my feet wet. the sand and seaweed and the push up the beach slope, then rolling back again served to abrade most of its skin. The same happened with a second globe fish, and presumably also the anglerfish found nearby, but that had been washed up earlier.
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21 cm Rather damaged, possibly well pecked by seagulls, but they didn't take the eye, so maybe mangled by another fish? or careless fisher who then did not use it for bait.
I have assumed it was caught.
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Puffer de Barras Naranjas (Polyspina piosae)Autor
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53 mm
E of West beach steps
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again, fairly dry but the ring around the fin is unmistakeable
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a little dried out but the spines are still very sharp!
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Pez Erizo del Sur (Diodon nicthemerus)Autor
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globefish 24 cm.
Even in death these fish can look happy. I love them.
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Puffer de Barras Naranjas (Polyspina piosae)Autor
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third of the morning
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Puffer de Barras Naranjas (Polyspina piosae)Autor
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second orange barred puffer of the morning, 5.5 cm.
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Puffer de Barras Naranjas (Polyspina piosae)Autor
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first orange barred puffer of the morning, 5.7 cm.
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third (and freshest!) toadfish of the morning, 19.5 cm.
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second toadfish of the morning, 17.2 cm.
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first toadfish of the morning, 7.7 cm.
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Tasselled anglerfish Rhycherus filamentosus 17 cm in length.
Fish seems to be west of its known range, according to Gomon et al. (2008, p.372). It has a damaged belly and lost a lot of skin, but has likely been rolled around in sand and seaweed before being washed up a steep slope. ID of R. filamentosus rather than R. gloveri based on shape of esca, according to diagram of esca distinguishing the species on p. 372. Fin ray count D=1,1,1, 12; A=7; C=9; P=11 ; V= 5
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Dragón de Mar Común (Phyllopteryx taeniolatus)Autor
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First one I have seen this year, but I haven't had much opportunity to look!
Still, very pretty., and only just washed up.
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Cofre de Shaw (Aracana aurita)Autor
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25 cm This is the first time I have found one of these on the beach on the west side of Hopetoun. The seagulls (?)had been having a peck at it. The foot prints are quite large, perhaps a pacific gull? The left side was in better shape and as it hadn't faded a much probably washed up overnight..
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16.5 cm just wouldn't be a visit if I didn't find one of these!
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19 cm. Looks like something took a bite out of its back, or many a fisher person though perhaps to use it as bait? who knows?
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Puffer de Barras Naranjas (Polyspina piosae)Autor
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67mm at East Miley's Beach FRNP
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