#planehead filefish

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Scrawled filefish (Aluterus scriptus), Fantail filefish (Pervagor spilosoma), Planehead filefish (Stephanolepis hispidus), Orange filefish (Aluterus schoepfii)

Fishes of the World. Written by Hans Hvass. Illustrated by Wilhelm Eigener. Originally published in 1964.

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[indifferentmidnights]

today's featured photo on english wikipedia is so beautiful ( ˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ )

Stephanolepis hispidus (planehead filefish)

by Diego Delso on Wikimedia Commons

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[eurodiverslanzarote]

The Planehead Filefish (Stephanolepis hispidus) with a spin! 🌪

The fish is common here but its always nice to encounter this strange shaped fish. It is found up to 300 meters of depth!

[phostracks]

Perhaps Monacanthus hispidus, the Planehead filefish New Smyrna Beach in Volusia county, Florida (05 June 2015, Nikon D7100) New Smyrna 2015 BioBlitz

I could be incorrect with my identification, but I believe this is Monacanthus hispidus, the Planehead filefish, another species that often scratches out its living among tangles of Sargassum seaweed. I’ve found a good number of these youngsters over the years — wee babies washed up with the Sargassum along the coastline. As adults, they can grow upwards to around ten or eleven inches in length, but truthfully I’ve only seen them like the one you see here: itty bitty, super duper, wee tiny. I mean, we’re talking a ridiculously wee little fish. Fortunately for this little babe, I found it while it was kicking and flailing about some sargassum. I quickly put the youngster in a small wave pool to catch some quick oxygen and then snagged a few quick shots as I returned it back to the open water. Hopefully, the little tanker is growing steadily to become a slightly more audacious predator of the Atlantic’s floating sargassum tangles!

The Planehead Filefish (Monacanthus hispidus), 05 June 2015 [ID Unconfirmed!] Perhaps Monacanthus hispidus, the Planehead filefish New Smyrna Beach in Volusia county, Florida (05 June 2015, Nikon D7100)

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[eurodiverslanzarote]

Señor Frankie with a Planehead filefish (Stephanolepis hispidus). ✈

The growth and ageing have being studied in the Canary Islands. In the summer time they are spawning.

[eurodiverslanzarote]

One fish that you must have seen here at Lanzarote.

Very iconic shape and funny behaviour.

The Planehead Filefish (Stephanolepis hispidus) is a cryptic species. Which tries to be camouflaged in his environment with different colors. 🐠

[eurodiverslanzarote]

The Planehead Filefish (Stephanolepis hispidus) well camouflaged in between the algae. 🐡 It has a cryptic colour. The global distribution reach from East Atlantic, Canary Islands to Angola and in the West Atlantic from Canada to Uruguay!

[eurodiverslanzarote]

This curious fish is the Planehead Filefish (stephanolepis hispidus).

Very interesting shape of body in the fish world! 🐡