Question: Once I was on an educational trawl aboard a boat called the EduCat. We were collecting data and found a green fish that had adapted to look like a mangrove seed! We couldn't find the name of the species and it was found around the Jacobs Well area. Do you know what it was?
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It looked like another mangrove species the one that has a little green seed that turns brown and you can open it up. Like this-
It looked like that seed but still closed.
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Oh! it was a Pygmy Leatherjacket fish. The scientific name is Brachaluteres jacksonianus
There is a photograph here…
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brachaluteres_jacksonianus.jpg -
Thanks!!!!
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Thanks okay… great question…
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oops, I ment “thats okay”
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Woah,the Pygmy leatherjacket looks really cool :^)
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Wow that looks weird I think I’ve seen a mangrove seed but it looks more like a fish than a mangrove seed. Aren’t they more like a small cylinder?
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There are other mangrove seeds that look like a cylinder, that’s why I got confused and though it was a pipe fish.. https://www.susanscott.net/OceanWatch2008/feb-01-08.html
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I don’t see why fish need silly names like pipe fish and leatherjacket. It’s just weird!
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They aren’t silly names!!
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LOL… the names are chosen to help us recognise the animal. So a pipe fish, look like a pipe and has a hard body covering of scales (like a sea horse…. which looks like a horse). The leatherjackets there skin a scales feel like ruff leather, it looks like they have a leather jacket on…
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Hi wdowe2
It can be hard for me to say without seeing a photo of the fish…. but it sounds like you found a pipe fish, called Stigmatopora sp. they are related to the sea horses, but they are straight. Did the fish have a hard body?
Have a look at this photo is this what you found?
https://www.agefotostock.com/en/Stock-Images/Rights-Managed/F71-482444
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