What in the world is this fish?

[John_Brandt]

OK, everybody always asks me what stuff is. Now it's your turn!

I'm not tellin' until someone guesses it correctly...

 

[tazdevil]

Looks like a paddle fish.

 

[John_Brandt]

Looks like a paddle fish.

Nope...

 

[Anonymous]

Looks like a chimera, or maybe a sturgeon relative of some kind. It looks like it has a heteroceral tail, which teleosts don't have. The mouth looks just like a sturgeon's too.

 

[Anonymous]

Yup, I'm reasonably sure it's a chimeran, just not sure which.
http://www.elasmo-research.org/educatio ... imaera.htm

 

[Anonymous]

I'm going to guess Hariotta sp. or Neohariotta sp.

 

[hdtran]

I thought sturgeons had armored-looking scales? This fellow looks scale-challenged.

Funnynosus weirdfishus?

 

[Anonymous]

Sturgeons only have "scales" in a very small area near the base of their tail. They have bony plates along their back, and a bony head. Otherwise they are cartilaginous. Sort of a mix between shark and bony fish.

Chimerans, which I think this fish is one of, are in the Order Chondrichthyes along with sharks. They are commonly called 'ratfish'.

 

[Anonymous]

OK, I think this is it:
Rhinochimaera atlantica
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/Species ... =atlantica

 

[Anonymous]

Here's a guy on the net who has the same pic and while I agree it's the genus
Rhinochimaeridae I'm not convince he has the correct species though I'm not sure what species it is either.


http://www.thejump.net/id/longnose-chimaera.htm

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[John_Brandt]

Matt, you win the prize. It's a Rhinochimaera sp., and we'll just leave it at that. You win a breakfast for two at Denny's :lol:

 

[Juck]

And hope that fish isn't on the menu.

 

[K9coral]

I want one for the up and coming FO tank!!!

 

[John_Brandt]

Dominique Didier Dagit
Associate Curator, Department of Ichthyology

Biography: How I Became Hooked on Chimaeroids

Oh man, I'm in love with this fish geek...

 

[Anonymous]

That was my first reaction as well.

 

[Anonymous]

She is cute. John can I bring hyena neck to Denny's also, or is just Dominique and me?

 

[John_Brandt]

She is cute. John can I bring hyena neck to Denny's also, or is just Dominique and me?

Get away Matt, I saw her first! You've got J-Lo Hyena.

 

[John_Brandt]

Gertrude Gidgett Gapple
Associate Professor, Department of Proctology

Biography: How I Became Hooked on Hemorrhoids

 

[Anonymous]

Are you sure..could it be a platypus ? :?

 

[Anonymous]

a mutated squid :?