Photo of live tropical freshwater Puffer Fish (Ikan Buntal). The Ikan Buntal was caught at the muddy Siar Beach, Lundu. Ikan Buntal probably belong to Tetraodontidae family.
The small Ikan Buntal actually feel like a frog with soft tissue.
Closer shot of Ikan Buntal.
Tetraodontidae is a family of primarily marine and estuarine fish. The family includes many familiar species which are variously called puffers, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish, toadfish, toadies, honey toads, fugu and sea squab.
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* Photo of Pristella maxillaris - X-ray fish - Series #2
* Tropical Transparent Fish - Glass Fish - X-Ray Fish
* Snake head fish photo
* Animal Oddity - Photo of Twin Tilapia Fish
* Animal Oddity - Photo of Barreleye Fish - Macropinna microstoma
Two conjoined Nile freshwater Tilapia fish, dubbed "Siamese twin," swim in a small aquarium in Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 3, 2008. They are both 8 months old and share part of their skin. The bigger fish tends to protect the smaller one from harm while the smaller one looks for food at the bottom of the aquarium. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters )
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Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) captured this image of a barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) in the deep waters just offshore of Central California from a video taken by a remotely operated video at depths of 2,000 to 2,600 feet. Since it was discovered in 1939, the barreleye's vision has been a mystery, until scientists at MBARI solved it on Feb. 23, 2009. The barreleye has extremely light-sensitive, tubular eyes that can rotate inside of its transparent head. Capped by bright green lenses, the fish's eyes point upward when it looks for food overhead, and then they point forward when the fish is feeding to focus on its prey. (Courtesy Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
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This is the second series on photos of tropical freshwater X-Ray, transparent fish or glass fish. The fishes are probably belonging to the species Pristella maxillaris.
Cropped, X-Ray fish (Pristella maxillaris)
Cropped, X-Ray fish (Pristella maxillaris)
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* Tropical Transparent Fish - Glass Fish - X-Ray Fish - Series #1
For more hi-resolution photos, check out my Flickr Fish Gallery #1 or Fish Gallery #2
Photo taken at Sarawak Museum Aquarium.
Snake head fish has been called with names such as Evil Snakehead, voracious fish, nightmarish creatures, predacious, awful and dreadful fish.
A snakehead fish is a large, predatory freshwater fish native to Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other parts of Asia. There are 28 varieties of snakehead fish. The snakehead is imported to the U.S. as a food fish and also for the aquarium trade where many thousands are sold every year as pets.
The snakehead fish is unique in several ways from most other fish. Similar in body-type to a muscular eel, some varieties can grow to 4 feet (1.2m) in length. The snakehead has a flat snake-like head and toothed maw, hence it's name. What makes the snakehead so unique, however, is its voracious appetite and its ability to breathe air. In fact the snakehead can travel short distances across land and live for up to three days out of water! It will eat fish equal in size to itself and will consume small mammals as well. There are even reports in Asia of snakeheads attacking and killing humans.
Snake head fish
Snake head fish, full body shot
The northern snakehead is extremely adaptable to various climates including cold waters, and like all snakeheads, breeds easily. Adaptability, carnivorous appetitive, lack of natural enemies and ability to transverse land, makes the northern snakehead a real threat to U.S. waterways and indigenous species of fish and amphibians. Tropical and subtropical breeds of snakeheads can pose an additional threat to warmer waterways like those in Florida and Hawaii.
Photos taken at Sarawak Museum Aquarium
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* Tropical Transparent Fish - Glass Fish - X-Ray Fish
Below are photos of tropical freshwater transparent fish or glass fish. Not exactly transparent but the fish bones are clearly visible. This means, technically it not a see-through fish.
The transparent fish in the photos below probably lacks black pigment, called "nacre". It's exact species is unknown but my guess is that is an X-ray fish - Pristella maxillaris.
Cropped photo of freshwater X-ray fish
Photo of freshwater X-ray fish
Photo of freshwater X-ray fish
For more hi-resolution photos, check out my Flickr Fish Gallery.
Photo taken at Sarawak Museum Aquarium.
Other type of transparent fish: Zebrafish
Some transparent fish such as the see-through zebrafish are use by scientists and researchers to directly view its internal organs, and observe processes like tumor metastasis and blood production after bone-marrow transplant in a living organism.
Other type of transparent fish: icefishes
The icefishes (or white-blooded fishes) are a family (Channichthyidae) of perciform fish found in the cold waters around Antarctica and southern South America.
Their blood is transparent because they have no hemoglobin and/or only defunct erythrocytes. Their metabolism relies only on the oxygen dissolved in the liquid blood, which is believed to be absorbed directly through the skin from the water. This works because water can dissolve the most oxygen when it is coldest. In five species, the gene for myoglobin in the muscles has also vanished, leaving them with white instead of pink hearts.
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* Added May 26, 2008: Photo of Pristella maxillaris - X-ray fish - Series #2
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