#loosejaw fish

[tamvmat]

DredgeTober #23 "Glow"

There are quite a few options for things to draw that work with "glow" in Dredge.

I thought I'd draw this little weirdo - the Stoplight Loosejaw fish. It's basically an aberration as it is haha

[littleguymart]

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[shirecorn]

Another deep sea mermaid with a creative body plan: the stoplight loosejaw. This dragonfish has unfolding jaws that allow it to swallow slippery, oversize prey, though it is happy to feast on copepod plankton, which power its unusual bioluminescence.

Red light disappears in the depths, but the mermaid still sees what is illuminated, unknowing, in front of its jaws. Blue light to lure prey in, red to signal its impending death.

A truly gorgeous creature!

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #799

Stoplight loosejaw!

The stoplight loosejaw is able to see red with a chlorophyll derivative that absorbs red light — the fish obtains this pigment from eating copepods, which actually make up a large portion of its diet! One of its most notable features is its large, red cheek light, but it also has other lights, like a green light under the eye and several small blue lights all over its underside.

[i-give-you-a-fish]

could i please have a deep sea fish pretty please thank you

I bring you my personal favorite deep-sea fish

There aren’t very many pictures of these guys, so have this tasteful sketch

You get a Stoplight loosejaw

Malacosteus niger

[lampfacedstudios]

In the act of working on Ponzu’s reference and solidifying that she’s an ambassador from a deep-water zora realm, I got to thinking about what the other residents might look like. Very rough concepts here.

Ponzu is based on a species of chimaera that travels to shallower waters at night/to spawn, so by extension she’s more suited to go ashore to the main zora domain for diplomatic reasons. The other deep-water zora, however... generally most of them are not so suited to it. Both as far as what they can put up with physically, and how their appearance is taken by the mainlanders. They can be standoffish towards anyone not of their realm, don’t speak much to the point they can be mistaken for mute entirely, and the inability for some of them to emote with facial expressions makes them come off as unnerving.

[fish-daily]

Stoplight Loosejaw fish! (Sorry if you don't accept deep sea fishes requests)

fish 80 - stoplight loosejaw

[saybel]

Day 11: Deep Sea fish

The Stoplight Loosejaw

They both can see and produce red light, which gives them an advantage in the twilight and midnight zones. The bioluminescent organs around their eyes earned them the name "stoplight"

@fish-daily

[ocean-waters]

Little personal thing, but I finally got to draw again and decided to actually try to develop a concept I've had in my head for a little bit.

I finally made an actual oc! A siren with attributes based on the stoplight loosejaw fish

[just-some-guy-joust]

(feel free to correct me if any of the below information is false! I'm just one guy! I won't be able to edit these posts, but a correction is always appreciated anyways)

Stoplight Loosejaw is a species of dragonfish with bioluminescent "stoplights" beneath their eyes! They can unhinge their jaw and shoot it forward to eat prey!

Oarfish are mysterious huge fish that we mainly know from the remains that wash up on shore! It's theorized they could be the origin of "sea serpents" in old stories! They get to be about 26 ft (8 meters) long!

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

hahaha yeah "catfish" okay. are we really gonna name a fish after anything now?

oh.

[bogleech]

Do you have any articles on your site about weird Fish? I know you have lots of weird animal articles but I'm meaning fish specifically. I'm joining a DnD game and want to be a weird fish-person, but don't want to just have my character be a typical vague grouper/pirannah/etc generic fishman.

I have some old articles around about deep sea fish but here are some of my obscure favorites:

I really obsess over the face of the "tube eye," like it has these great big jaws that open up, but they're covered up in skin with just a tiny little hole at the bottom!

Grideyes have normal eyes when they're young but by maturity the eyeballs have degenerated away and been replaced by these reflective yellow pits in the skull for collecting as much light as possible

walking batfish are one of the groups of anglerfish that aren't restricted to the deep sea and their fins evolved into four silly feet they waddle on

rattrap fish or "loosejaws" have jaws that basically detach to grab food like a preying mantis's claws

this illustration is accurate to a live loosejaw and several related dragonfish or viperfish by the way - the mouth just doesn't have a "floor." The jaw is nearly fleshless. This is so it cuts through the water even faster, since the jaw's only purpose is to snare food and shove it down into the stomach as fast as possible.

this is my favorite picture of a stargazer because it just really shows off how their big bulldog face is twisted straight upward

lookit the face on this eel larva !!!

Telescope fish!

Everyone probably knows about the barreleye by now but here's the barreleye. It's not quite that its eyes are "inside a clear skull" like the news sensationalized but that its whole head is encased in a gelatinous bubble, with the eyes inside specifically to protect them from the stingers of the siphonophores it preys on!

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #447

Stoplight loosejaw!

They’re able to produce red bioluminescence, the only fishes to be able to do so! Because red is the first colour that gets absorbed into water, deep sea fish tend to not be able to see red light. The red l bioluminescence therefore gives the stoplight loosejaws a light to hunt with that only they can see!

[rununcal]

Barely an exaggeration

(Image ID: A drawing of several deepsea fish. On the right is "most deepsea fish". They are all ghastly and uncanny in some way. The category includes the mirrorbelly, a vertical schooling of cutlassfish, the pelican eel, the silver spinyfin, and the stoplight loosejaw. On the left is the "the deepest deepsea fish", which only has one fish. This is a type of snailfish: a very cute, puppylike scaleless fish that is the deepest recorded fish in the world. End ID)

[evilfarmin]

I'm crying about this this is great 🥺🥺 I have love in my heart ❤️

my secret santa gift for @evilfarmin!!! ^__^ featuring stoplight loosejaw mermaid etho bc that's my fav fishy <3

ID: digital fanart of EthosLab as a mermaid against a white background. He has dark green, dark blue, dark purple, and black scales that cover his neck, torso, tail, and the top of his forearms. His mask is made of seaweed and he has red bioluminescent photophores under his eyes.

On the upper left, he is drawn from the shoulders up with a casual expression while looking off to the side.

On the upper middle, he is drawn from the shoulders up with an angry expression while looking at the viewer. His photophores are glowing bright red, and he is against a dark ocean background. Above him is a photo of a stoplight loosejaw in real life.

On the upper right, he is drawn from the neck up at a side view with his eyes closed. He has his mask off, showing his jaw that resembles a stoplight loosejaw's. It has an extra hinge hidden underneath and sharp teeth.

On the middle left, his eyes are drawn looking at the viewer with a casual expression. His right eye is blue, his left eye is red, and there are two red photophores underneath both of his eyes. He also has a pale scar over his left eye.

On the bottom, he is drawn swimming with his right hand resting behind his head and his left hand pointing up a finger gun with sparkles drawn around it. He has a carefree expression, and his scale color slowly shifts from dark green at his neck to dark blue at his hips to dark purple at the base of his fins to black at the tips of his fins. End ID

@mcytblrholidayexchange ty for organizing the event ^___^!!!!

[taxonomytournament]

Taxonomy Tournament: Fish

Tetraodontiformes. This order contains many fishses with unusual body structures, such as boxfishes, which are boxy as the implies, pufferfishes, which are round and able to inflate, and the ocean sunfish, the largest bony fish.

Stomiiformes. This order is made up of deep-sea fishes. It includes dragonfishes, loosejaws, viperfishes, and bristlemouths, the most populated family of vertebrates, with population numbering in the hundreds of trillions to quadrillions.