montereybayaquarium: This fish is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-YES! It’s a monkeyface prickleback! It’s almo
montereybayaquarium: This fish is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-YES! It’s a monkeyface prickleback! It’s almost Valentine’s Day, but don’t expect the monkeyface prickleback to catch eelings. After decades of putting up with being called an eel, the monkeyface prickleback is moving on. With its proud pectoral fins and lack of an eel-y leptocephalus larva, this elongated crevice dweller is ridding itself of the world’s eel intentions and focusing on being the best long fish it can be! -- source link