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Monday, July 28, 2003

A WillYaLookitThat! moment...
A fisherman gave MN an eel that he'd caught on a deepwater longline and said in all his years of fishing, he'd never seen one before. There was a crowd of biologists milling around in the wetlab trying to identify it. The focus on the camera was misbehaving, and of course I didn't bring mine. But we finally got it to work. It's always fun finding new critters. It brightens up our day.


(Note "alt" text)

Full length shot:
Full length - the original also had a nice portrait of my toes but I cropped them out.

Head shot:
We had trouble finding the gill openings; turns out they're U-shaped lines in that pink area, waay behind the head.

Top of head:
Looks like the head of one of my kid's rubber dinosaurs.

Hard to see, but it did appear to have photophores (little glow in the dark dots) various places on its head and next to the ventral fin. We're not sure, but after consulting "The Deepwater Fishes of California." we think it might be a dogface witch-eel (Facciolella gilbertii - Family Nettastomatidae).

Another one in this family is Venefica, which means, I gather from various Goth websites, a witch who brews and dispenses poison. Poor little eel, what did it do, to get such a name?
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